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The blind have no notion of time. The things of time are hidden from them too.
Samuel Beckett
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Samuel Beckett
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: April 13
Died: 1989
Died: December 22
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There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
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I, of whom I know nothing, I know my eyes are open, because of the tears that pour from them unceasingly.
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They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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The time is perhaps not altogether too green for the vile suggestion that art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear, and more than the light of day (or night) makes the subsolar, -lunar, and -stellar excrement. Art is the sun, moon, and stars of the mind, the whole mind.
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There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.
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The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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