If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
SAMUEL BECKETTThat desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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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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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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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
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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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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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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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All has not been said and never will be.
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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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But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!
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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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