Samuel Beckett

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Birthdate April 13, 1906

Zodiac Aries

Location Dublin,

Country Ireland

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I can't go on, I'll go on.

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The only sin is the sin of being born

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Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

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Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don

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The new light above my table is a great improvement. With all this darkness around me I feel less alone. (Pause.) In a way. (Pause.) I love to get up and move about in it, then back here to... (hesitates) ...me. (Pause.)

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The earth makes a sound as of sighs and the last drops fall from the emptied cloudless sky. A small boy, stretching out his hands and looking up at the blue sky, asked his mother how such a thing was possible. Fuck off, she said.

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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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No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

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The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.

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The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.

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I happened to look up and there it was. All over and done with, at last. I sat on for a few moments with the ball in my hand and the dog yelping and pawing at me. (Pause.) Moments. Her moments, my moments (Pause.) The dog's moments.

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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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