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What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
Samuel Beckett
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Samuel Beckett
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: April 13
Died: 1989
Died: December 22
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I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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Estragon: Nothing to be done.
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Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me!
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It is useless not to seek, not to want, for when you cease to seek you start to find, and when you cease to want, then life begins to ram her fish and chips down your gullet until you puke, and then the puke down your gullet until you puke the puke, and then the puked puke until you begin to like it.
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Try again. Fail again. Try better.
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Estragon: I can't go on like this. Vladimir: That's what you think.
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Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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You are not satisfied unless form is so strictly divorced from content that you can comprehend the one without almost without bothering to read the other.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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To-morrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of to-day?
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.' You won't believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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Words fail, there are times when even they fail.
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