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Words are all we have.

Samuel Beckett

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Samuel Beckett
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: April 13
Died: 1989
Died: December 22
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Words fail, there are times when even they fail.
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It was the only way to progress, to stop.
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There is no use indicting words, they are no shoddier than what they peddle.
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My keepers, why keepers, I'm in no danger of stirring an inch, ah I see, it's to make me think I'm a prisoner, frantic with corporeality, rearing to get out and away.
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Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea.
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Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you.
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The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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The blind have no notion of time. The things of time are hidden from them too.
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It's a lot to ask of one creature, it's a lot to ask, that he should first behave as if he were not, then as if he were, before being admitted to that peace where he neither is, nor is not, and where the language dies that permits of such expressions.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful.
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There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.
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Women are all the bloody sameyou can't love for five minutes without wanting it abolished in brats and house bloody wifery.
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The Tuesday scowls, the Wednesday growls, the Thursday curses, the Friday howls, the Saturday snores, the Sunday yawns, the Monday morns, the Monday morns. The whacks, the moans, the cracks, the groans, the welts, the squeaks, the belts, the shrieks, the pricks, the prayers, the kicks, the tears, the skelps, and the yelps.
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We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.
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I gave up before birth.
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