I will not deny that my heart has long occupied itself with the most tender feelings for another. So strong were these impulses that I indulged myself by thinking that if I could not have him whom I admired whom I will admit it now when I would not before I loved then I would never want another. However those are sentiments best saved for one of Lily's romances. The heart is a far more practical thing and in its life is happily capable of more than a single attachment.


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Vladimir: Did I ever leave you?
Estragon: You let me go.
SAMUEL BECKETT
... from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear i...
BERNARD BECKETT
The speech we hear is an indication of that which we don't hear. It is a necessary avoidance, a viol...
SAMUEL BECKETT
I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longe...
SAMUEL BECKETT
Fail, Fail Again, Fail Better...
SAMUEL BECKETT
They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more
SAMUEL BECKETT
It's so nice to know where you're going, in the early stages. It almost rids you of the wish to go t...
SAMUEL BECKETT
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
SAMUEL BECKETT
I've got a Minor League game on Friday. I just need to keep the intensity and stay focused and get o...
JOSH BECKETT
What is certain is this, that I never rested in that way again, my feet obscenely resting on the ear...
SAMUEL BECKETT
And if I sometimes hear nothing for hours on end it is for reasons of which I know nothing, or becau...
SAMUEL BECKETT
Was I sleeping, while the others suffered? Am I sleeping now? Tomorrow, when I wake, or think I do,...
SAMUEL BECKETT
With his two hands he props up his jaw. He passes without a word. Perhaps he does not see me. One of...
SAMUEL BECKETT
Fortunately I did not need affection.
SAMUEL BECKETT
que ferais-je sans ce monde

que ferais-je sans ce monde sans visage sans questions
...
SAMUEL BECKETT
That's how it is on this bitch of an earth
SAMUEL BECKETT
For why be discouraged, one of thieves was saved, that is a generous percentage.
SAMUEL BECKETT
We all are born mad. Some remain so.
SAMUEL BECKETT
I could not distinguish one modern work of art from another, but he taught me the difference between...
SAMUEL BECKETT
My characters have nothing. I'm working with impotence, ignorance... that whole zone of being that h...
SAMUEL BECKETT
Enough of acting the infant who has been told so often how he was found under a cabbage that in the ...
SAMUEL BECKETT
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness
SAMUEL BECKETT
Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go...
SAMUEL BECKETT
I can't go on. I'll go on.
SAMUEL BECKETT
Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
SAMUEL BECKETT
Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the p...
SAMUEL BECKETT
I missed you...and at the same time I was happy. Isn't that a queer thing?
SAMUEL BECKETT
Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
SAMUEL BECKETT
There are some problems remaining but what we have to be wary of is creating further problems oursel...
MARGARET BECKETT
You couldn't necessarily say, 'That hurricane, that storm, that flood only happened because of clima...
MARGARET BECKETT
I have to tell you that, sadly, this affectionate greeting contains a virus which has immobilized th...
MARGARET BECKETT