To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
SAMUEL BECKETTIn my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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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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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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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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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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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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There’s never an end for the sea.
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