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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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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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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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Watt had watched people smile and thought he understood how it was done.
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And truly it little matters what I say, this or that or any other thing. Saying is inventing. Wrong, very rightly wrong. You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it is wept.
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Humbly to ask a favour of people who are on the point of knocking your brains out sometimes produces good results.
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It was the only way to progress, to stop.
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Estragon: Nothing to be done.
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It is useless not to seek, not to want, for when you cease to seek you start to find, and when you cease to want, then life begins to ram her fish and chips down your gullet until you puke, and then the puke down your gullet until you puke the puke, and then the puked puke until you begin to like it.
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Unhappy, but not unhappy enough.
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There is at least this to be said for mind, that it can dispel mind.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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The sky sinks in the morning, this fact has been insufficiently observed.
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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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Vladimir: I don't understand. Estragon: Use your intelligence, can't you? Vladimir uses his intelligence. Vladimir: (finally) I remain in the dark.
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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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My mistakes are my life.
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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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All that is active, all that is enveloped in time and space, is endowed with what might be described as an abstract, ideal and absolute impermeability.
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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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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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