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.
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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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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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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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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