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Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities of it.
Samuel Beckett
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Samuel Beckett
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: April 13
Died: 1989
Died: December 22
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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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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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