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Samuel Beckett
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Samuel Beckett
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: April 13
Died: 1989
Died: December 22
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Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me!
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?
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Vladimir: I don't understand. Estragon: Use your intelligence, can't you? Vladimir uses his intelligence. Vladimir: (finally) I remain in the dark.
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Let's go. We can't. Why not? We're waiting for Godot.
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I have always been amazed at my contemporaries’ lack of finesse, I whose soul writhed from morning to night, in the mere quest of itself.
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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 pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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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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Watt had watched people smile and thought he understood how it was done.
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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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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.
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The human eyelid is not teartight (happily for the human eye).
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All the things you would do gladly, oh without enthusiasm, but gladly, all the things there seems no reason for your not doing, and that you do not do! Can it be we are not free? It might be worth looking into.
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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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For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
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