To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
SAMUEL BECKETTIf 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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The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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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 gave up before birth.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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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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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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My mistakes are my life.
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