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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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Sa-miao-erh Pei-kʻo-tʻe
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I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
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What is this love that more than all the cursed deadly or any other of its great movers so moves the soul and soul what is this soul that more than by any of its great movers is by love so moved?
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There is this to be said for Dachsunds of such length and lowness as Nelly, that it makes very little difference to their appearance whether they stand, sit or lie.
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Make sense who may. I switch off.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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James Joyce: His writing is not about something. It is the thing itself.
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If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.
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Deplorable mania, when something happens, to inquire what.
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That penny farthing hell you call your mind
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To him who has nothing it is forbidden not to relish filth.
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Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.
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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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In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg. Shall I swallow cave-phantoms?
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The sky sinks in the morning, this fact has been insufficiently observed.
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The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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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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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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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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Estragon: I can't go on like this. Vladimir: That's what you think.
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