All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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Sometimes I wonder if I’m in my right mind. Then it passes off and I’m as intelligent as ever.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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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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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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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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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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My mistakes are my life.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little.
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