Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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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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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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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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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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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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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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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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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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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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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