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 BECKETTI tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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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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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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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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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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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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