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The memory came faint and cold of the story I might have told, a story in the likeness of my life, I mean without the courage to end or the strength to go on.
Samuel Beckett
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Samuel Beckett
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: April 13
Died: 1989
Died: December 22
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There's something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you.
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