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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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The Tuesday scowls, the Wednesday growls, the Thursday curses, the Friday howls, the Saturday snores, the Sunday yawns, the Monday morns, the Monday morns. The whacks, the moans, the cracks, the groans, the welts, the squeaks, the belts, the shrieks, the pricks, the prayers, the kicks, the tears, the skelps, and the yelps.
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It's a rare thing not to have been bonny-- once.
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What is this love that more than all the cursed deadly or any other of its great movers so moves the soul and soul what is this soul that more than by any of its great movers is by love so moved?
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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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It is better to adopt the simplest explanation, even if it is not simple, even if it does not explain very much. A bright light is not necessary, a taper is all one needs to live in strangeness, if it faithfully burns.
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Dying for dark — and the darker the Worse. Strange.
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My mistakes are my life.
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If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.
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Adulterers, take warning, never admit.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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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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It sometimes happens and will sometimes happen again that I forget who I am and strut before my eyes, like a stranger.
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The only thing you must never speak of is your happiness.
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Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.
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Estragon: I can't go on like this. Vladimir: That's what you think.
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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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