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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.

Samuel Beckett

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?
SAMUEL BECKETT

Affection Love Myself Normal Woman
What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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Happiness Unknown
I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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Feeling Myself Record
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.
SAMUEL BECKETT

End Enough Forever Wait Wasted Time
Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Imagination Reality Surface
With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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Alone Darkness Feeling Myself
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.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Born Death Live Myself
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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Kind Mouth Myself Open Thinking Word
The essential doesn’t change.
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Change Essence One Liner
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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Deep Necessary Silence Word
It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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Dreams Effect Horrible Myself
My mistakes are my life.
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Life Mistake Myself One Liner
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.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Head Myself Universe Window
Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Deep Listening Meaning Silence Wisdom Word
Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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Art Clarity Clear
The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Greatness Machine Ourselves Time

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