That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
SAMUEL BECKETTIf you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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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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I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
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Birth was the death of him.
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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The essential doesn’t change.
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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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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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