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What is this love that more than all the cursed deadly or any other of its great movers so moves the soul and soul what is this soul that more than by any of its great movers is by love so moved?
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Never but the one matter. The dead and gone. The dying and going. From the word go.
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What goes by the name of love is banishment, with now and then a postcard from the homeland, such is my considered opinion, this evening.
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Yesterday is not a milestone that has been passed, but a daystone on the beaten track of the years, and irremediably part of us, within us, heavy and dangerous. We are not merely more weary because of yesterday, we are other, no longer what we were before the calamity of yesterday.
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The time is perhaps not altogether too green for the vile suggestion that art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear, and more than the light of day (or night) makes the subsolar, -lunar, and -stellar excrement. Art is the sun, moon, and stars of the mind, the whole mind.
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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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The situation is that of him who is helpless, cannot act, in the event cannot paint, since he is obliged to paint. The act is of him who, helpless, unable to act, acts, in the event paints, since he is obliged to paint.
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There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.
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Abode where lost bodies roam each searching for its lost one.
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The sky sinks in the morning, this fact has been insufficiently observed.
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Do not despair. Remember there is no triangle, however obtuse, but the circumference of some circle passes through its wretched vertices.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
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Samuel Beckett
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Born:
April 13, 1906
Died:
December 22, 1989
(aged 83)
Bio:
Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, who lived in Paris for most of his adult life and wrote in both English and French.
Known for:
Waiting for Godot (1952)
Endgame (1957)
Krapp's Last Tape (1958)
Happy Days (1960)
Not I (1972)
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