The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
SAMUEL BECKETTDo we mean love, when we say love?
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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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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If 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.
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I gave up before birth.
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If I was dead, I wouldn’t know I was dead. That’s the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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The essential doesn’t change.
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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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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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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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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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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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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?
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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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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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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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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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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