To restore silence is the role of objects.
SAMUEL BECKETTYes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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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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If I was dead, I wouldn’t know I was dead. That’s the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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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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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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My mistakes are my life.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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