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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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Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you.
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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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The only sin is the sin of being born.
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Deplorable mania, when something happens, to inquire what.
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How do you manage it, she said, at your age? I told her I'd been saving up for her all my life.
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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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Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea.
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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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Don't look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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All the things you would do gladly, oh without enthusiasm, but gladly, all the things there seems no reason for your not doing, and that you do not do! Can it be we are not free? It might be worth looking into.
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