To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
SAMUEL BECKETTI tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.
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My mistakes are my life.
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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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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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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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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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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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For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
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