"In the landscape of extinction, precision is next……" — Samuel Beckett
"In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness."
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220 Quotes by Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett has 220 quotes on this site.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not…
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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and…
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You're on earth. There's no cure for that.
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I can't go on. I'll go on.
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There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
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Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
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No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always…
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The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops.…
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James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to…
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More Extinction Quotes
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There are so many issues in our oceans - like the near extinction of blue fin tuna - that should…
— Heston Blumenthal
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Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. ... Everything science has taught me-and continues to teach me-strengthens…
— Wernher von Braun
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The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be…
— Joseph de Maistre
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Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely…
— Jean Dubuffet
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EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state.
— Ambrose Bierce
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It is even harder to realize that this present universe has evolved from an unspeakably unfamiliar early condition, and faces…
— Steven Weinberg
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[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of…
— Bertrand Russell
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The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long…
— Samuel Adams
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Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress.
— Stephen Jay Gould
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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.
— Hillel the Elder
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I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested…
— Abraham Lincoln
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In the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and…
— Abraham Lincoln
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