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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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Over, over, there is a soft place in my heart for all that is over, no, for the being over, words have been my only loves, not many.
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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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Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.
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The time is perhaps not altogether too green for the vile suggestion that art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear, and more than the light of day (or night) makes the subsolar, -lunar, and -stellar excrement. Art is the sun, moon, and stars of the mind, the whole mind.
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There's never an end for the sea.
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If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.
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Yesterday is not a milestone that has been passed, but a daystone on the beaten track of the years, and irremediably part of us, within us, heavy and dangerous. We are not merely more weary because of yesterday, we are other, no longer what we were before the calamity of yesterday.
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You would do better, at least no worse, to obliterate texts than to blacken margins, to fill in the holes of words till all is blank and flat and the whole ghastly business looks like what it is, senseless, speechless, issueless misery.
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To have been always what I am - and so changed from what I was.
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All the things you would do gladly, oh without enthusiasm, but gladly, all the things there seems no reason for your not doing, and that you do not do! Can it be we are not free? It might be worth looking into.
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James Joyce: His writing is not about something. It is the thing itself.
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Try again. Fail again. Try better.
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Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience.
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All that is active, all that is enveloped in time and space, is endowed with what might be described as an abstract, ideal and absolute impermeability.
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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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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.
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Mysterious affair, electricity.
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Yes, light, there is no other word for it.
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It sometimes happens and will sometimes happen again that I forget who I am and strut before my eyes, like a stranger.
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The human eyelid is not teartight (happily for the human eye).
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