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Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me!
Samuel Beckett
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Samuel Beckett
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: April 13
Died: 1989
Died: December 22
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What a joy to know where one is, and where one will stay, without being there. Nothing to do but stretch out comfortably on the rack, in the blissful knowledge you are nobody for all eternity. A pity I should have to give tongue at the same time, it prevents it from bleeding in peace, licking the lips.
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I knew it would soon be the end, so I played the part, you know, the part of — how shall I say, I don’t know.
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James Joyce: His writing is not about something. It is the thing itself.
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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 creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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Do they [the publishers of Murphy] not understand that if the book is slightly obscure it is because it is a compression and thatto compress it further can only make it more obscure?
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I say me, knowing all the while it's not me.
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Hold the old holding hand. Hold and be held. Plod on and never recede. Slowly with never a pause plod on and never recede.
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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I want very much to be back in the caul, on my back in the dark forever.
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The bicycle is a great good. But it can turn nasty, if ill employed.
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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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Enough to know no knowing.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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There's something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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Clear to me at last that the dark I have always struggled to keep under is in reality my most
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To find a form that accommodates the shape of the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience.
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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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Better hope deferred than none.
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