Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
SAMUEL BECKETTTo find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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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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The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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If I was dead, I wouldn’t know I was dead. That’s the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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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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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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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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