The essential doesn’t change.
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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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
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The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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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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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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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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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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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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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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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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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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