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I say me, knowing all the while it's not me.
Samuel Beckett
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Samuel Beckett
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: April 13
Died: 1989
Died: December 22
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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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If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.
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Poetry is essentially the antithesis of Metaphysics: Metaphysics purge the mind of the senses and cultivate the disembodiment of the spiritual Poetry is all passionate and feeling and animates the inanimate Metaphysics are most perfect when concerned with universals Poetry, when most concerned with particulars.
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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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