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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
Samuel Beckett
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Samuel Beckett
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: April 13
Died: 1989
Died: December 22
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Dublin city
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Sa-miao-erh Pei-kʻo-tʻe
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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The Tuesday scowls, the Wednesday growls, the Thursday curses, the Friday howls, the Saturday snores, the Sunday yawns, the Monday morns, the Monday morns. The whacks, the moans, the cracks, the groans, the welts, the squeaks, the belts, the shrieks, the pricks, the prayers, the kicks, the tears, the skelps, and the yelps.
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We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.
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Birth was the death of him.
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Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
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Don't look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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There's something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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I have always been amazed at my contemporaries’ lack of finesse, I whose soul writhed from morning to night, in the mere quest of itself.
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Humbly to ask a favour of people who are on the point of knocking your brains out sometimes produces good results.
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How hideous is the semicolon.
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The only thing you must never speak of is your happiness.
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Deplorable mania, when something happens, to inquire what.
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There is at least this to be said for mind, that it can dispel mind.
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How long have I been here, what a question, I've often wondered. And often I could answer, An hour, a month, a year, a century, depending on what I meant by here, and me, and being, and there I never went looking for extravagant meanings, there I never much varied, only the here would sometimes seem to vary.
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In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
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Do they [the publishers of Murphy] not understand that if the book is slightly obscure it is because it is a compression and thatto compress it further can only make it more obscure?
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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Dear incomprehension, it's thanks to you I'll be myself, in the end.
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Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me!
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