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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
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Semicolon
Hideous
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The time-state of attainment eliminates so accurately the time-state of aspiration, that the actual seems the inevitable, and, all conscious intellectual effort to reconstitute the invisible and unthinkable as a reality being fruitless, we are incapable of appreciating our joy by comparing it with our sorrow.
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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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Dear incomprehension, it's thanks to you I'll be myself, in the end.
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Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
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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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To find a form that accommodates the shape of the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea.
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Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful.
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But it seems impossible to speak and yet say nothing, you think you have succeeded, but you always overlook something.
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