To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
SAMUEL BECKETTYes, 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.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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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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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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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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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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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.
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