To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
SAMUEL BECKETTHabit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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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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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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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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My mistakes are my life.
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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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If I was dead, I wouldn’t know I was dead. That’s the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.
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Birth was the death of him.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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I gave up before birth.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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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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