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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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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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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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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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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
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What kind of country is this where a woman can't weep her heart out on the highways and byways without being tormented by retired bill-brokers!
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Let's go. We can't. Why not? We're waiting for Godot.
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Try again. Fail again. Try better.
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Vladimir: Did I ever leave you? Estragon: You let me go.
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Yes, I dont know why, but I have never been disappointed, and I often was in the early days, without feeling at the same time, or a moment later, an undeniable relief.
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The human eyelid is not teartight (happily for the human eye).
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The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.
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That penny farthing hell you call your mind
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There is at least this to be said for mind, that it can dispel mind.
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The blind have no notion of time. The things of time are hidden from them too.
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