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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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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.
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Yes, there is no denying it, any longer, it is not you who are dead, but all the others. So you get up and go to your mother, who thinks she is alive. That's my impression. But now I shall have to get myself out of this ditch. How joyfully I would vanish here, sinking deeper and deeper under the rains.
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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
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If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.
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There is at least this to be said for mind, that it can dispel mind.
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Humbly to ask a favour of people who are on the point of knocking your brains out sometimes produces good results.
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VLADIMIR: What do they say? ESTRAGON: They talk about their lives. VLADIMIR: To have lived is not enough for them. ESTRAGON: They have to talk about it.
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Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.
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To have been always what I am - and so changed from what I was.
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Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me!
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It sometimes happens and will sometimes happen again that I forget who I am and strut before my eyes, like a stranger.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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How long have I been here, what a question, I've often wondered. And often I could answer, An hour, a month, a year, a century, depending on what I meant by here, and me, and being, and there I never went looking for extravagant meanings, there I never much varied, only the here would sometimes seem to vary.
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And what I have, what I am, is enough, was always enough for me, and as far as my dear little sweet little future is concerned I have no qualms, I have a good time coming.
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Yesterday is not a milestone that has been passed, but a daystone on the beaten track of the years, and irremediably part of us, within us, heavy and dangerous. We are not merely more weary because of yesterday, we are other, no longer what we were before the calamity of yesterday.
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