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> [Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/art-has-nothing-to-do-with-clarity-does-not-dabble-in-the-clear-and/)

[Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/)

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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)…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/the-time-is-perhaps-not-altogether-too-green-for-the-vile-suggestion/)

[Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/)

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## More by Samuel Beckett

> [“It was December, I had never felt so cold, the eel soup lay heavy on my stomach, I was afraid I'd die, I turned…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/it-was-december-i-had-never-felt-so-cold-the-eel-soup-lay-heavy-on-my/)

[Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/)

> [“To be always what I am - and so changed from what I was.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/to-be-always-what-i-am-and-so-changed-from-what-i-was/)

[Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/)

> [To what will love not stoop!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/to-what-will-love-not-stoop/)

[Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/)

> [With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/with-all-this-darkness-round-me-i-feel-less-alone/)

[Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/)

> [“You may say it is all in my head, and indeed sometimes it seems to me I am in a head and that these…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/you-may-say-it-is-all-in-my-head-and-indeed-sometimes-it-seems-to-me/)

[Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/)

> [“Here he stood. Here he sat. Here he knelt. Here he lay. Here he moved, to and fro, from the door to the window,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/here-he-stood-here-he-sat-here-he-knelt-here-he-lay-here-he-moved-to/)

[Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/)

> [What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/what-are-we-doing-here-that-is-the-question-and-we-are-blessed-in/)

[Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/)

> [I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/i-shall-state-silences-more-competently-than-ever-a-better-man/)

[Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/)

> [It is useless not to seek, not to want, for when you cease to seek you start to find, and when you cease to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/it-is-useless-not-to-seek-not-to-want-for-when-you-cease-to-seek-you/)

[Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/)

> [We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/we-are-not-saints-but-we-have-kept-our-appointment-how-many-people/)

[Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/)

> [The new light above my table is a great improvement. With all this darkness around me I feel less alone. (Pause.) In a way.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/the-new-light-above-my-table-is-a-great-improvement-with-all-this/)

[Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/)

> [I lay down across her with my face in her breasts and my hand on her. We lay there without moving. But under us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/i-lay-down-across-her-with-my-face-in-her-breasts-and-my-hand-on-her/)

[Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/)

> [Women are all the bloody sameyou can't love for five minutes without wanting it abolished in brats and house bloody wifery.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/women-are-all-the-bloody-sameyou-can-t-love-for-five-minutes-without/)

[Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/)

> [“ESTRAGON: Do you think God sees me? VLADIMIR: You must close your eyes. Estragon closes his eyes, staggers worse. ESTRAGON: (stopping, brandishing his fists,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/estragon-do-you-think-god-sees-me-vladimir-you-must-close-your-eyes/)

[Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/)

> [Deplorable mania, when something happens, to inquire what.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/deplorable-mania-when-something-happens-to-inquire-what/)

[Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/)

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