Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little.
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I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.
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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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Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn’t want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn’t want them back.
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Birth was the death of him.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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