Do we mean love, when we say love?
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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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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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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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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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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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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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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I gave up before birth.
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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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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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My mistakes are my life.
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