To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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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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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.
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Birth was the death of him.
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Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.
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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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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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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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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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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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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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The essential doesn’t change.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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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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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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