The essential doesn’t change.
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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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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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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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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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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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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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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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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