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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
Samuel Beckett
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Samuel Beckett
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: April 13
Died: 1989
Died: December 22
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Humbly to ask a favour of people who are on the point of knocking your brains out sometimes produces good results.
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Poetry is essentially the antithesis of Metaphysics: Metaphysics purge the mind of the senses and cultivate the disembodiment of the spiritual Poetry is all passionate and feeling and animates the inanimate Metaphysics are most perfect when concerned with universals Poetry, when most concerned with particulars.
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Words fail, there are times when even they fail.
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Enough to know no knowing.
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I try. I fail. I try again. I fail better.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
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Vladimir: Did I ever leave you? Estragon: You let me go.
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Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.
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Estragon: I can't go on like this. Vladimir: That's what you think.
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Ah, the old questions, the old answers, there's nothing like them!
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Over, over, there is a soft place in my heart for all that is over, no, for the being over, words have been my only loves, not many.
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Where am I, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.
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HAMM: We're not beginning to... to... mean something? CLOV: Mean something! You and I, mean something! (Brief laugh.) Ah that's a good one!
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The time is perhaps not altogether too green for the vile suggestion that art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear, and more than the light of day (or night) makes the subsolar, -lunar, and -stellar excrement. Art is the sun, moon, and stars of the mind, the whole mind.
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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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My notes have a curious tendency, as I realize at last, to annihilate all they purport to record.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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How long have I been here, what a question, I've often wondered. And often I could answer, An hour, a month, a year, a century, depending on what I meant by here, and me, and being, and there I never went looking for extravagant meanings, there I never much varied, only the here would sometimes seem to vary.
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There is no use indicting words, they are no shoddier than what they peddle.
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