If you do not love me I shall not be loved. If I do not lov… - Samuel Beckett

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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.

Samuel Beckett

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Samuel Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet and winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature. He wrote mainly in English and French.

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Alternative Names: Samuel Barclay Beckett • Andrew Belis • Sam Beckett • Sa-miao-erh Pei-kʻo-tʻe • Samuel Beḳeṭ

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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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If you do not love me I shall not be loved. If I do not love you I shall not love. - Samuel Beckett

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