To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
SAMUEL BECKETTTo restore silence is the role of objects.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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 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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Birth was the death of him.
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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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You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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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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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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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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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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