Samuel Beckett - Krapp's Last Tape (1958)

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The new light above my table is a great improvement. With all this darkness around me I feel less alone. (Pause.) In a way. (Pause.) I love to get up and move about in it, then back here to... (hesitates)...me. (Pause.)

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Krapp: Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now.

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Krapp: Ah finish your booze now and get to your bed. Go on with this drivel in the morning. Or leave it at that. (Pause.) Leave it at that.

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Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you.

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How do you manage it, she said, at your age? I told her I'd been saving up for her all my life.

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Perhaps my best years are gone…but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire that's in me now.

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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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