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There is at least this to be said for mind, that it can dispel mind.
Samuel Beckett
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Samuel Beckett
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: April 13
Died: 1989
Died: December 22
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The blind have no notion of time. The things of time are hidden from them too.
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You would do better, at least no worse, to obliterate texts than to blacken margins, to fill in the holes of words till all is blank and flat and the whole ghastly business looks like what it is, senseless, speechless, issueless misery.
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All the things you would do gladly, oh without enthusiasm, but gladly, all the things there seems no reason for your not doing, and that you do not do! Can it be we are not free? It might be worth looking into.
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You are not satisfied unless form is so strictly divorced from content that you can comprehend the one without almost without bothering to read the other.
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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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If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.
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The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.
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If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.
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My notes have a curious tendency, as I realize at last, to annihilate all they purport to record.
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To find a form that accommodates the shape of the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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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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We should have thought of it when the world was young, in the nineties.
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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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What a joy to know where one is, and where one will stay, without being there. Nothing to do but stretch out comfortably on the rack, in the blissful knowledge you are nobody for all eternity. A pity I should have to give tongue at the same time, it prevents it from bleeding in peace, licking the lips.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.
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