To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
SAMUEL BECKETTAgainst the charitable gesture there is no defence.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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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 sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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