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 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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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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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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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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I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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Birth was the death of him.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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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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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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