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.
SAMUEL BECKETTArt has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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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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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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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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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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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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Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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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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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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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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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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