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Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.

Samuel Beckett

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Samuel Beckett
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: April 13
Died: 1989
Died: December 22
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Cricketer
Film Director
French Resistance Fighter
Intellectual
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Novelist
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Poet
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Dublin city
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Sa-miao-erh Pei-kʻo-tʻe
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Beyond
Endlessly
Head
Riot
Words
Troubled
Running
Pursuing
Anything
Indifference
Great
Images
Clashing
Really
Flying
Merging
Never
Calm
Tumult

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