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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.
Samuel Beckett
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Samuel Beckett
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: April 13
Died: 1989
Died: December 22
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Sometimes I wonder if I'm in my right mind. Then it passes off and I'm as intelligent as ever.
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The situation is that of him who is helpless, cannot act, in the event cannot paint, since he is obliged to paint. The act is of him who, helpless, unable to act, acts, in the event paints, since he is obliged to paint.
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The sky sinks in the morning, this fact has been insufficiently observed.
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What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in the immense confusion one thing alone is clear. We are waiting for Godot to come
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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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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When the object is perceived as particular and unique and not merely the member of a family, when it appears independent of any general notion and detached from the sanity of a cause, isolated and inexplicable in the light of ignorance, then and only then may it be a source of enchantment.
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My notes have a curious tendency, as I realize at last, to annihilate all they purport to record.
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But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!
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Vladimir: I don't understand. Estragon: Use your intelligence, can't you? Vladimir uses his intelligence. Vladimir: (finally) I remain in the dark.
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What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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Abode where lost bodies roam each searching for its lost one.
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Two in distressmake sorrow less.
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To-morrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of to-day?
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