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We all are born mad. Some remain so.
Samuel Beckett
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Samuel Beckett
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: April 13
Died: 1989
Died: December 22
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Sa-miao-erh Pei-kʻo-tʻe
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There is at least this to be said for mind, that it can dispel mind.
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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.
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Don't look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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Sometimes I wonder if I'm in my right mind. Then it passes off and I'm as intelligent as ever.
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The sky sinks in the morning, this fact has been insufficiently observed.
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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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Decidedly it will never have been given to me to finish anything, except perhaps breathing. One must not be greedy.
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in reality we are one and all from the unthinkable first to the no less unthinkable last glued together in a vast imbrication of flesh without breach or fissure
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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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[T]he syndrome known as life is too diffuse to admit of palliation. For every symptom that is eased, another is made worse. The horse leech's daughter is a closed system. Her quantum of wantum cannot vary.
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Words fail, there are times when even they fail.
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Habit is a compromise effected between the individual and his environment, or between the individual and his own organic eccentricities, the guarantee of a dull inviolability, the lightning-conductor of his existence.
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Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience.
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Dear incomprehension, it's thanks to you I'll be myself, in the end.
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