All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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The essential doesn’t change.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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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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Birth was the death of him.
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There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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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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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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I gave up before birth.
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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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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Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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