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Words fail, there are times when even they fail.
Samuel Beckett
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Samuel Beckett
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: April 13
Died: 1989
Died: December 22
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The only sin is the sin of being born.
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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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Love requited is a short circuit.
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Habit is a compromise effected between the individual and his environment, or between the individual and his own organic eccentricities, the guarantee of a dull inviolability, the lightning-conductor of his existence.
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Watt had watched people smile and thought he understood how it was done.
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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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There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping to go in a straight line.
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Words are all we have.
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Over, over, there is a soft place in my heart for all that is over, no, for the being over, words have been my only loves, not many.
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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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Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you.
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To find a form that accommodates the shape of the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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The reality of the individualis an incoherent reality and must be expressed incoherently.
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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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The sky sinks in the morning, this fact has been insufficiently observed.
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Ah, the old questions, the old answers, there's nothing like them!
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