To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
SAMUEL BECKETTIf you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.
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But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!
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Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little.
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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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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.
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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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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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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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