There’s never an end for the sea.
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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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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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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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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Birth was the death of him.
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Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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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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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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Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn’t want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn’t want them back.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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