All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn’t want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn’t want them back.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.
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But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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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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Birth was the death of him.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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