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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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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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Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea.
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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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Vladimir: I don't understand. Estragon: Use your intelligence, can't you? Vladimir uses his intelligence. Vladimir: (finally) I remain in the dark.
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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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And all these questions I ask myself. It is not in a spirit of curiosity. I cannot be silent. About myself I need know nothing. Here all is clear. No, all is not clear. But the discourse must go on. So one invents obscurities. Rhetoric.
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Dying for dark — and the darker the Worse. Strange.
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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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They never lynch children, babies, no matter what they do they are whitewashed in advance.
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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.
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My keepers, why keepers, I'm in no danger of stirring an inch, ah I see, it's to make me think I'm a prisoner, frantic with corporeality, rearing to get out and away.
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I knew it would soon be the end, so I played the part, you know, the part of — how shall I say, I don’t know.
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There's something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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