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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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 don’t like animals. It’s a strange thing, I don’t like men and I don’t like animals. As for God, he is beginning to disgust me.
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Let's go. We can't. Why not? We're waiting for Godot.
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It is better to adopt the simplest explanation, even if it is not simple, even if it does not explain very much. A bright light is not necessary, a taper is all one needs to live in strangeness, if it faithfully burns.
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But it seems impossible to speak and yet say nothing, you think you have succeeded, but you always overlook something.
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Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
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I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
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How hideous is the semicolon.
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I am such a good man, at bottom, such a good man, how is it that nobody ever noticed it?
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