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.
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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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
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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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I gave up before birth.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.
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The essential doesn’t change.
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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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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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