Do we mean love, when we say love?
SAMUEL BECKETTI pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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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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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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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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Love, 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?
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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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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Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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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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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.
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You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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