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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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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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Ah, the old questions, the old answers, there's nothing like them!
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Let's go. We can't. Why not? We're waiting for Godot.
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I try. I fail. I try again. I fail better.
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I know those little phrases that seem so innocuous, and, once you let them in, pollute the whole of speech. 'Nothing is more real than nothing.' They rise up out of the pit and know no rest until they drag you down into its dark.
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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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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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Enough to know no knowing.
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Over, over, there is a soft place in my heart for all that is over, no, for the being over, words have been my only loves, not many.
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Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea.
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To find a form that accommodates the shape of the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living.
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The bicycle is a great good. But it can turn nasty, if ill employed.
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We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?
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For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
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Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities of it.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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