To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
SAMUEL BECKETTMemories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little.
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Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.
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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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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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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.
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For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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The essential doesn’t change.
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In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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Sometimes I wonder if I’m in my right mind. Then it passes off and I’m as intelligent as ever.
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My mistakes are my life.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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All has not been said and never will be.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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