If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
SAMUEL BECKETTWords are the clothes thoughts wear.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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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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If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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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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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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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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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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There’s never an end for the sea.
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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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