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The earth makes a sound as of sighs and the last drops fall from the emptied cloudless sky. A small ...

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All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beg...

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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 ...

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Samuel BeckettKrapp's Last Tape & Embers

Henry: I usen't to need anyone, just to myself, stories, there was a great one about an old fellow c...

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Ada: And why life? (Pause.) Why life, Henry? (Pause.) Is there anyone about?Henry: Not a living soul...

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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...

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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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Samuel BeckettKrapp's Last Tape & Embers

Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you.

I lay down across her with my face in her breasts and my hand on her. We lay there without moving. B...

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Samuel BeckettKrapp's Last Tape & Embers

The new light above my table is a great improvement. With all this darkness around me I feel less al...

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I asked her to look at me and after a few moments - (pause) - after a few moments she did, but the e...

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What is certain is this, that I never rested in that way again, my feet obscenely resting on the ear...

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When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a ci...

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