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I don't know why I told this story. I could just as well have told another. Perhaps some other time I'll be able to tell another. Living souls, you will see how alike they are.
Samuel Beckett
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Samuel Beckett
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: April 13
Died: 1989
Died: December 22
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Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you.
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There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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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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My work is a matter of fundamental sounds (no joke intended) made as fully as possible, and I accept responsibility for nothing else. If people want to have headaches among the overtones, let them. And provide their own aspirin.
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Watt had watched people smile and thought he understood how it was done.
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The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.
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Adulterers, take warning, never admit.
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Ah, the old questions, the old answers, there's nothing like them!
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My keepers, why keepers, I'm in no danger of stirring an inch, ah I see, it's to make me think I'm a prisoner, frantic with corporeality, rearing to get out and away.
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What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
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They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
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God is love. Yes or no? No.
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We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?
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Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.
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My mistakes are my life.
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Sloth is all passions the most powerful.
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Don't look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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