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Clear to me at last that the dark I have always struggled to keep under is in reality my most
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Samuel Beckett
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: April 13
Died: 1989
Died: December 22
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It's a lot to ask of one creature, it's a lot to ask, that he should first behave as if he were not, then as if he were, before being admitted to that peace where he neither is, nor is not, and where the language dies that permits of such expressions.
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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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