Sometimes I wonder if I’m in my right mind. Then it passes off and I’m as intelligent as ever.
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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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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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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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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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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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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I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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My mistakes are my life.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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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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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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