Samuel Beckett quote: They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.

They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.

~ Samuel Beckett ~

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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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Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

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The only sin is the sin of being born

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It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home, ... what it is to be at home? A lingering dissolution.

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HAMM:Scoundrel! Why did you engender me?NAGG:I didn't know.HAMM:What? What didn't you know?NAGG:That it'd be you.(Pause.)

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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.

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CLOV:Do you believe in the life to come?HAMM:Mine was always that.

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Ah earth you old extinguisher.

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

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I shall soon be quite dead at last in spite of all.

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