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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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To have been always what I am - and so changed from what I was.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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We all are born mad. Some remain so.
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It is useless not to seek, not to want, for when you cease to seek you start to find, and when you cease to want, then life begins to ram her fish and chips down your gullet until you puke, and then the puke down your gullet until you puke the puke, and then the puked puke until you begin to like it.
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Birth was the death of him.
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There is at least this to be said for mind, that it can dispel mind.
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The search for the means to put an end to things, an end to speech, is what enables the discourse to continue.
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