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Enough to know no knowing.
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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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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Words are all we have.
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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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In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg. Shall I swallow cave-phantoms?
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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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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The Tuesday scowls, the Wednesday growls, the Thursday curses, the Friday howls, the Saturday snores, the Sunday yawns, the Monday morns, the Monday morns. The whacks, the moans, the cracks, the groans, the welts, the squeaks, the belts, the shrieks, the pricks, the prayers, the kicks, the tears, the skelps, and the yelps.
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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
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Decidedly it will never have been given to me to finish anything, except perhaps breathing. One must not be greedy.
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The time-state of attainment eliminates so accurately the time-state of aspiration, that the actual seems the inevitable, and, all conscious intellectual effort to reconstitute the invisible and unthinkable as a reality being fruitless, we are incapable of appreciating our joy by comparing it with our sorrow.
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The only thing you must never speak of is your happiness.
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The bicycle is a great good. But it can turn nasty, if ill employed.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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Watt had watched people smile and thought he understood how it was done.
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Deplorable mania, when something happens, to inquire what.
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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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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Unhappy, but not unhappy enough.
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