To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
SAMUEL BECKETTThe essential doesn’t change.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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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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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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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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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 old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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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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The essential doesn’t change.
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