Birth was the death of him.
SAMUEL BECKETTIf you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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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.
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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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My mistakes are my life.
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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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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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