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How hideous is the semicolon.
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
Samuel Beḳeṭ
Semicolon
Hideous
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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Decidedly it will never have been given to me to finish anything, except perhaps breathing. One must not be greedy.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.' You won't believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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