To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
SAMUEL BECKETTFriendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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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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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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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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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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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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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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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 creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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