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Estragon: I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.
Samuel Beckett
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Samuel Beckett
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: April 13
Died: 1989
Died: December 22
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Sa-miao-erh Pei-kʻo-tʻe
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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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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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My notes have a curious tendency, as I realize at last, to annihilate all they purport to record.
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Let's go. We can't. Why not? We're waiting for Godot.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.
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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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There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
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Sloth is all passions the most powerful.
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