To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
SAMUEL BECKETTFail, fail again, fail better.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher’s regular, what normal woman wants affection?
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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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My mistakes are my life.
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But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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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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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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Birth was the death of him.
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