Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
SAMUEL BECKETTThe dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.
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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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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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Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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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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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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