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 BECKETTIf 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.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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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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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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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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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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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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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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In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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