My mother. I don't think too harshly of her. I know she did all she could not to have me, except of course the one thing, and if she never succeeded in getting me unstuck, it was that fate had earmarked me for less compassionate sewers.

Samuel Beckett
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  1. You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.

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

  3. No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

  4. The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.

  5. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

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