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There is at least this to be said for mind, that it can dispel mind.
Samuel Beckett
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Samuel Beckett
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: April 13
Died: 1989
Died: December 22
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Abode where lost bodies roam each searching for its lost one.
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My keepers, why keepers, I'm in no danger of stirring an inch, ah I see, it's to make me think I'm a prisoner, frantic with corporeality, rearing to get out and away.
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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.
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Unhappy, but not unhappy enough.
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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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I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
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Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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It's a rare thing not to have been bonny-- once.
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You would do better, at least no worse, to obliterate texts than to blacken margins, to fill in the holes of words till all is blank and flat and the whole ghastly business looks like what it is, senseless, speechless, issueless misery.
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Mysterious affair, electricity.
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They never lynch children, babies, no matter what they do they are whitewashed in advance.
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Adulterers, take warning, never admit.
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