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It was the only way to progress, to stop.
Samuel Beckett
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Samuel Beckett
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: April 13
Died: 1989
Died: December 22
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God is love. Yes or no? No.
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Estragon: I can't go on like this. Vladimir: That's what you think.
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Unhappy, but not unhappy enough.
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They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
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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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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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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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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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