If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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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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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The essential doesn’t change.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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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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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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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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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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I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.
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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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