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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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Dublin city
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Andrew Belis
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Sa-miao-erh Pei-kʻo-tʻe
Samuel Beḳeṭ
Godot
Waiting
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Make sense who may. I switch off.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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Where am I, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.
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