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Dear incomprehension, it's thanks to you I'll be myself, in the end.
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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There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.
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You are not satisfied unless form is so strictly divorced from content that you can comprehend the one without almost without bothering to read the other.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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The blind have no notion of time. The things of time are hidden from them too.
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There's never an end for the sea.
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Decidedly it will never have been given to me to finish anything, except perhaps breathing. One must not be greedy.
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Do they [the publishers of Murphy] not understand that if the book is slightly obscure it is because it is a compression and thatto compress it further can only make it more obscure?
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