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No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
Samuel Beckett
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Samuel Beckett
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: April 13
Died: 1989
Died: December 22
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Sa-miao-erh Pei-kʻo-tʻe
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Decidedly it will never have been given to me to finish anything, except perhaps breathing. One must not be greedy.
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We wait. We are bored. (He throws up his hand.) No, don't protest, we are bored to death, there's no denying it. Good. A diversion comes along and what do we do? We let it go to waste. Come, let's get to work! (He advances towards the heap, stops in his stride.) In an instant all will vanish and we'll be alone more, in the midst of nothingness!
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I am such a good man, at bottom, such a good man, how is it that nobody ever noticed it?
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Yesterday is not a milestone that has been passed, but a daystone on the beaten track of the years, and irremediably part of us, within us, heavy and dangerous. We are not merely more weary because of yesterday, we are other, no longer what we were before the calamity of yesterday.
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The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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There is this to be said for Dachsunds of such length and lowness as Nelly, that it makes very little difference to their appearance whether they stand, sit or lie.
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Abode where lost bodies roam each searching for its lost one.
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I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
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In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.
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We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?
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Not to want to say, not to know what you want to say, not to be able to say what you think you want to say, and never to stop saying, or hardly ever, that is the thing to keep in mind, even in the heat of composition.
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Words are all we have.
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Habit is a compromise effected between the individual and his environment, or between the individual and his own organic eccentricities, the guarantee of a dull inviolability, the lightning-conductor of his existence.
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How hideous is the semicolon.
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Let's go. We can't. Why not? We're waiting for Godot.
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Estragon: I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.
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Sloth is all passions the most powerful.
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Yes, there is no denying it, any longer, it is not you who are dead, but all the others. So you get up and go to your mother, who thinks she is alive. That's my impression. But now I shall have to get myself out of this ditch. How joyfully I would vanish here, sinking deeper and deeper under the rains.
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You are not satisfied unless form is so strictly divorced from content that you can comprehend the one without almost without bothering to read the other.
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They never lynch children, babies, no matter what they do they are whitewashed in advance.
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