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“All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
― Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho

“The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”
― Samuel Beckett, Endgame

“I can't go on, I'll go on.”
― Samuel Beckett, I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader

“You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn’t flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn’t have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.”
― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

“Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.”
― Franz Kafka

“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”
― Franz Kafka

“In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths. ”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Estragon: We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist?

Vladimir: Yes, yes, we're magicians.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my eyes and all is born again.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.”
― Eugene O'Neill

“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but 'That's funny...”
― Isaac Asimov

“The meaning of life is that it stops.”
― Franz Kafka

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka

“You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.”
― Samuel Beckett

“The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot