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It means what it says.

— Samuel Beckett

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  1. If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.
  2. Nothing happens, twice.
  3. The only sin is the sin of being born.
  4. Enough. Sudden enough. Sudden all far. No move and sudden all far. All least. Three pins. One pinhole. In dimmost dim. Vasts apart. At boun…
  5. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
  6. Perhaps it's done already, perhaps they have said me already, perhaps they have carried me to the threshold of my story, before the door th…
  7. This place, if I could describe this place, no place around me, there's no end to me, I don't know what it is, it isn't flesh, it doesn't e…
  8. Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that'…

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  • truth
  • clarity
  • literalism

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