Do we mean love, when we say love?
SAMUEL BECKETTLove, 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?
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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Birth was the death of him.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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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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