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 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.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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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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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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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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There’s never an end for the sea.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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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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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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