That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
SAMUEL BECKETTYou’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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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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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.
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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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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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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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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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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 am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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