I gave up before birth.
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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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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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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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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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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Better hope deferred than none.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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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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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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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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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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