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Deplorable mania, when something happens, to inquire what.
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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Better hope deferred than none.
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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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Unhappy, but not unhappy enough.
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But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!
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Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.
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Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea.
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God is a witness that cannot be sworn.
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I can't go on. I'll go on.
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It's a lot to ask of one creature, it's a lot to ask, that he should first behave as if he were not, then as if he were, before being admitted to that peace where he neither is, nor is not, and where the language dies that permits of such expressions.
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The situation is that of him who is helpless, cannot act, in the event cannot paint, since he is obliged to paint. The act is of him who, helpless, unable to act, acts, in the event paints, since he is obliged to paint.
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Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
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I try. I fail. I try again. I fail better.
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In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg. Shall I swallow cave-phantoms?
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Not to want to say, not to know what you want to say, not to be able to say what you think you want to say, and never to stop saying, or hardly ever, that is the thing to keep in mind, even in the heat of composition.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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Estragon: I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.
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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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