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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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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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It sometimes happens and will sometimes happen again that I forget who I am and strut before my eyes, like a stranger.
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All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
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And what I have, what I am, is enough, was always enough for me, and as far as my dear little sweet little future is concerned I have no qualms, I have a good time coming.
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Never but the one matter. The dead and gone. The dying and going. From the word go.
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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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Hold the old holding hand. Hold and be held. Plod on and never recede. Slowly with never a pause plod on and never recede.
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Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.
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The blind have no notion of time. The things of time are hidden from them too.
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What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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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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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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The only thing you must never speak of is your happiness.
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Hardly had the glow been kindled by some good deed on your part or by some little triumph over your rivals or by a word of praisefrom your parents or mentors when it would begin to cool and fade leaving you in a very short time as chill and dim as before.
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Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
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How do you manage it, she said, at your age? I told her I'd been saving up for her all my life.
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They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
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How long have I been here, what a question, I've often wondered. And often I could answer, An hour, a month, a year, a century, depending on what I meant by here, and me, and being, and there I never went looking for extravagant meanings, there I never much varied, only the here would sometimes seem to vary.
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Dear incomprehension, it's thanks to you I'll be myself, in the end.
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Birth was the death of him.
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