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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.

Samuel Beckett

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How is it that of the four Evangelists only one speaks of a thief being save. The four of them were there-or therabouts-and only one speaks of a thief being saved.

Samuel Beckett

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لا تزال نوبات قلة الصبر تطوف بي بين حين وآخر.

Samuel Beckett

Mots clés صامويل-بيكيت

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From Beckett's "The Unnamable":

"They love each other, marry, in order to love each other better, more conveniently, he goes off to the wars, he dies at the wars, she weeps, with emotion, at having loved him, at having lost him, yep, marries again, in order to love again..., more conveniently again, they love each other, you love as many times as necessary, as necessary in order to be happy, he comes back, the other comes back, from the wars, he didn't die at the wars after all, she goes to the station, to meet him, he dies in the train, of emotion, at the thought of seeing her again, having her again, she weeps, weeps again, with emotion again, at having lost him again, yep, goes back to the house, he's dead, the other is dead, the mother-in-law takes him down, he hanged himself, with emotion, at the thought of losing her, she weeps, weeps louder, at having loved him, at having lost him, there's a story for you, that was to teach me the nature of emotion, that's called emotion, what emotion can do, given favourable conditions, what love can do, well well, so that's emotion, that's love, and trains, and the nature of trains, and the meaning of...

Samuel Beckett

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In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg.
Shall I swallow cave-phantoms?

Samuel Beckett

Mots clés philosophy breakfast

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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust

Samuel Beckett

Mots clés love samuel-beckett murphy disgust chain

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there is [...]
a last even of last times of saying
if you do not love me I shall not be loved
if I do not love you I shall not love

Samuel Beckett