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To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living.
Samuel Beckett
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Samuel Beckett
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: April 13
Died: 1989
Died: December 22
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What a joy to know where one is, and where one will stay, without being there. Nothing to do but stretch out comfortably on the rack, in the blissful knowledge you are nobody for all eternity. A pity I should have to give tongue at the same time, it prevents it from bleeding in peace, licking the lips.
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The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
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Light black. From pole to pole.
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We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
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If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.
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Let's go. We can't. Why not? We're waiting for Godot.
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The search for the means to put an end to things, an end to speech, is what enables the discourse to continue.
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Decidedly it will never have been given to me to finish anything, except perhaps breathing. One must not be greedy.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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Make sense who may. I switch off.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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