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Book: The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989
Quotes of Book: The Complete Short Prose,
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  1. Samuel Beckett _ The Complete Short Prose,

    From time to time. You do not count your steps any more. For the simple reason they number each day the same. Average day in day out the same. The way being always the same. You keep count of the days and every tenth night multiply. And add. Your father's shade is not with you any more. It fell out long ago. You do not feel your footfalls any more. Unhearing unseeing you go your way. Day after day. The same way. As if there were no other any more. For you there is no other any more. You used never to halt except to make your reckoning. So as to plod from nought anew. This need removed as we have seen there is none in theory to halt any more. Save perhaps a moment at the outermost point. To gather yourself together for the return. And yet you do. As never before.
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  2. Samuel Beckett _ The Complete Short Prose,

    Real scratching is superior to masturbation, in my opinion.
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  3. Samuel Beckett _ The Complete Short Prose,

    It is gone, the heart is gone, the head is gone, no one feels anything, asks anything, seeks anything, says anything, hears anything, there is only silence.
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  4. Samuel Beckett _ The Complete Short Prose,

    I don't know why I told this story. I could just as well have told another. Perhaps some other time I'll be able to tell another. Living souls, you will see how alike they are.
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  5. Samuel Beckett _ The Complete Short Prose,

    But even them, my pains, I understand ill. That must come from my not being all pain and nothing else. There's the rub. Then they recede, or I, till they fill me with amaze and wonder, seen from a better planet. Not often, but I ask no more. Catch-cony life! To be nothing but pain, how that would simplify matters! Omnidolent! Impious dream.
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