The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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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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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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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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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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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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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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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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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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