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?
SAMUEL BECKETTArt has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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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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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.
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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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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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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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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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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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