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The reality of the individualis an incoherent reality and must be expressed incoherently.
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 fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.
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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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The only sin is the sin of being born.
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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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Let's go. We can't. Why not? We're waiting for Godot.
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The search for the means to put an end to things, an end to speech, is what enables the discourse to continue.
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My mistakes are my life.
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I hope I am not too old to take it up seriously, nor too stupid about machines to qualify as a commercial pilot. I do not feel like spending the rest of my life writing books that no one will read. It is not as though I wanted to write them.
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They never lynch children, babies, no matter what they do they are whitewashed in advance.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me!
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My work is a matter of fundamental sounds (no joke intended) made as fully as possible, and I accept responsibility for nothing else. If people want to have headaches among the overtones, let them. And provide their own aspirin.
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I am such a good man, at bottom, such a good man, how is it that nobody ever noticed it?
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To him who has nothing it is forbidden not to relish filth.
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Ah, the old questions, the old answers, there's nothing like them!
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What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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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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Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you.
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[T]he syndrome known as life is too diffuse to admit of palliation. For every symptom that is eased, another is made worse. The horse leech's daughter is a closed system. Her quantum of wantum cannot vary.
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Mysterious affair, electricity.
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