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Samuel Beckett
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: April 13
Died: 1989
Died: December 22
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The bicycle is a great good. But it can turn nasty, if ill employed.
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The time-state of attainment eliminates so accurately the time-state of aspiration, that the actual seems the inevitable, and, all conscious intellectual effort to reconstitute the invisible and unthinkable as a reality being fruitless, we are incapable of appreciating our joy by comparing it with our sorrow.
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My mistakes are my life.
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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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Estragon: I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.
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We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
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Poetry is essentially the antithesis of Metaphysics: Metaphysics purge the mind of the senses and cultivate the disembodiment of the spiritual Poetry is all passionate and feeling and animates the inanimate Metaphysics are most perfect when concerned with universals Poetry, when most concerned with particulars.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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There's never an end for the sea.
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But it seems impossible to speak and yet say nothing, you think you have succeeded, but you always overlook something.
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Love requited is a short circuit.
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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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It's a rare thing not to have been bonny-- once.
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I know those little phrases that seem so innocuous, and, once you let them in, pollute the whole of speech. 'Nothing is more real than nothing.' They rise up out of the pit and know no rest until they drag you down into its dark.
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No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
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Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.
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The Tuesday scowls, the Wednesday growls, the Thursday curses, the Friday howls, the Saturday snores, the Sunday yawns, the Monday morns, the Monday morns. The whacks, the moans, the cracks, the groans, the welts, the squeaks, the belts, the shrieks, the pricks, the prayers, the kicks, the tears, the skelps, and the yelps.
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In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
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