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I can't go on. I'll go on.
Samuel Beckett
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Samuel Beckett
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: April 13
Died: 1989
Died: December 22
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Dublin city
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Sa-miao-erh Pei-kʻo-tʻe
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Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
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Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.
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The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.
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If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.
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Make sense who may. I switch off.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.' You won't believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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Unhappy, but not unhappy enough.
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Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me!
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The time-state of attainment eliminates so accurately the time-state of aspiration, that the actual seems the inevitable, and, all conscious intellectual effort to reconstitute the invisible and unthinkable as a reality being fruitless, we are incapable of appreciating our joy by comparing it with our sorrow.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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The search for the means to put an end to things, an end to speech, is what enables the discourse to continue.
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That penny farthing hell you call your mind
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The reality of the individualis an incoherent reality and must be expressed incoherently.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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Habit is a compromise effected between an individual and his environment.
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