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It's a rare thing not to have been bonny-- once.
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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Better hope deferred than none.
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When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping to go in a straight line.
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Sloth is all passions the most powerful.
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Estragon: Nothing to be done.
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Ah, the old questions, the old answers, there's nothing like them!
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Words fail, there are times when even they fail.
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Don't look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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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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Unhappy, but not unhappy enough.
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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They never lynch children, babies, no matter what they do they are whitewashed in advance.
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The sky sinks in the morning, this fact has been insufficiently observed.
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Over, over, there is a soft place in my heart for all that is over, no, for the being over, words have been my only loves, not many.
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