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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
Samuel Beckett
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Samuel Beckett
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: April 13
Died: 1989
Died: December 22
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I can't go on. I'll go on.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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There is at least this to be said for mind, that it can dispel mind.
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Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.
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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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The bicycle is a great good. But it can turn nasty, if ill employed.
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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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