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We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.
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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And truly it little matters what I say, this or that or any other thing. Saying is inventing. Wrong, very rightly wrong. You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it is wept.
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Not to want to say, not to know what you want to say, not to be able to say what you think you want to say, and never to stop saying, or hardly ever, that is the thing to keep in mind, even in the heat of composition.
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How do you manage it, she said, at your age? I told her I'd been saving up for her all my life.
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If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.
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The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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Humbly to ask a favour of people who are on the point of knocking your brains out sometimes produces good results.
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I can't go on. I'll go on.
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There is this to be said for Dachsunds of such length and lowness as Nelly, that it makes very little difference to their appearance whether they stand, sit or lie.
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