Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.
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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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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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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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I gave up before birth.
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The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
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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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But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.
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