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Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea.
Samuel Beckett
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Samuel Beckett
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: April 13
Died: 1989
Died: December 22
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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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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Enough to know no knowing.
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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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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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God is love. Yes or no? No.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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Estragon: I can't go on like this. Vladimir: That's what you think.
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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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But I know what darkness is, it accumulates, thickens, then suddenly bursts and drowns everything.
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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And truly it little matters what I say, this or that or any other thing. Saying is inventing. Wrong, very rightly wrong. You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it is wept.
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The time is perhaps not altogether too green for the vile suggestion that art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear, and more than the light of day (or night) makes the subsolar, -lunar, and -stellar excrement. Art is the sun, moon, and stars of the mind, the whole mind.
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Two in distressmake sorrow less.
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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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To him who has nothing it is forbidden not to relish filth.
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We should have thought of it when the world was young, in the nineties.
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James Joyce: His writing is not about something. It is the thing itself.
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To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living.
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