Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
SAMUEL BECKETTThe dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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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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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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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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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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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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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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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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But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!
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