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We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?
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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Sa-miao-erh Pei-kʻo-tʻe
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I, of whom I know nothing, I know my eyes are open, because of the tears that pour from them unceasingly.
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In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg. Shall I swallow cave-phantoms?
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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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We wait. We are bored. (He throws up his hand.) No, don't protest, we are bored to death, there's no denying it. Good. A diversion comes along and what do we do? We let it go to waste. Come, let's get to work! (He advances towards the heap, stops in his stride.) In an instant all will vanish and we'll be alone more, in the midst of nothingness!
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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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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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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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We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.
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But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!
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There is no use indicting words, they are no shoddier than what they peddle.
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Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea.
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No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
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The tears stream down my cheeks from my unblinking eyes. What makes me weep so? There is nothing saddening here. Perhaps it is liquefied brain.
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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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