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My notes have a curious tendency, as I realize at last, to annihilate all they purport to record.
Samuel Beckett
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Samuel Beckett
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: April 13
Died: 1989
Died: December 22
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Sa-miao-erh Pei-kʻo-tʻe
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What a joy to know where one is, and where one will stay, without being there. Nothing to do but stretch out comfortably on the rack, in the blissful knowledge you are nobody for all eternity. A pity I should have to give tongue at the same time, it prevents it from bleeding in peace, licking the lips.
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The time is perhaps not altogether too green for the vile suggestion that art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear, and more than the light of day (or night) makes the subsolar, -lunar, and -stellar excrement. Art is the sun, moon, and stars of the mind, the whole mind.
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To-morrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of to-day?
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I don’t like animals. It’s a strange thing, I don’t like men and I don’t like animals. As for God, he is beginning to disgust me.
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I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.
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I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
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I knew it would soon be the end, so I played the part, you know, the part of — how shall I say, I don’t know.
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Abode where lost bodies roam each searching for its lost one.
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In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.
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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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Yes, light, there is no other word for it.
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Watt had watched people smile and thought he understood how it was done.
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We wait. We are bored. (He throws up his hand.) No, don't protest, we are bored to death, there's no denying it. Good. A diversion comes along and what do we do? We let it go to waste. Come, let's get to work! (He advances towards the heap, stops in his stride.) In an instant all will vanish and we'll be alone more, in the midst of nothingness!
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Don't look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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Where am I, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.
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I try. I fail. I try again. I fail better.
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Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
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We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?
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