I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
SAMUEL BECKETTReality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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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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There’s never an end for the sea.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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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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Better hope deferred than none.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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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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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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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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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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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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