Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
SAMUEL BECKETTFriendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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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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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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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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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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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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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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All has not been said and never will be.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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