I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or … - Samuel Beckett

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In a way, “failure” is just another word for “the journey,” for not being there yet but on the way. It’s the road we walk on to get wherever it is we’re trying to go.

Samuel Beckett

I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.

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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

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Don't look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.

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Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.

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That's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough.

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Perhaps that's what I feel, an outside and an inside and me in the middle, perhaps that's what I am, the thing that divides the world in two, on the one side the outside, on the other the inside, that can be as thin as foil, I'm neither one side nor the other, I'm in the middle, I'm the partition, I've two surfaces and no thickness, perhaps that's what I feel, myself vibrating, I'm the tympanum, on the one hand the mind, on the other the world, I don't belong to either.

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