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I gave up before birth.
Samuel Beckett
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Samuel Beckett
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: April 13
Died: 1989
Died: December 22
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Samuel Barclay Beckett
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Sa-miao-erh Pei-kʻo-tʻe
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It's a lot to ask of one creature, it's a lot to ask, that he should first behave as if he were not, then as if he were, before being admitted to that peace where he neither is, nor is not, and where the language dies that permits of such expressions.
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The only sin is the sin of being born.
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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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