Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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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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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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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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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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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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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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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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