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Let's go. We can't. Why not? We're waiting for Godot.
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
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Waiting
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Yes, light, there is no other word for it.
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It's a lot to ask of one creature, it's a lot to ask, that he should first behave as if he were not, then as if he were, before being admitted to that peace where he neither is, nor is not, and where the language dies that permits of such expressions.
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In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
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To have been always what I am - and so changed from what I was.
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The tears stream down my cheeks from my unblinking eyes. What makes me weep so? There is nothing saddening here. Perhaps it is liquefied brain.
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Yesterday is not a milestone that has been passed, but a daystone on the beaten track of the years, and irremediably part of us, within us, heavy and dangerous. We are not merely more weary because of yesterday, we are other, no longer what we were before the calamity of yesterday.
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The reality of the individualis an incoherent reality and must be expressed incoherently.
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We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?
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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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What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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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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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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Hardly had the glow been kindled by some good deed on your part or by some little triumph over your rivals or by a word of praisefrom your parents or mentors when it would begin to cool and fade leaving you in a very short time as chill and dim as before.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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There's something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
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To him who has nothing it is forbidden not to relish filth.
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There is this to be said for Dachsunds of such length and lowness as Nelly, that it makes very little difference to their appearance whether they stand, sit or lie.
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