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Make sense who may. I switch off.
Samuel Beckett
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Samuel Beckett
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: April 13
Died: 1989
Died: December 22
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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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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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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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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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Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.
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Light black. From pole to pole.
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Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
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Unhappy, but not unhappy enough.
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