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title: "Beckett quote"
slug: /beckett-quote/
date: 2023-10-19
tags: ["quotes", "reading"]
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> For what is this shadow of the going in which we come, this shadow of the
> coming in which we go, this shadow of the coming and the going in which we
> wait, if not the shadow of purpose, of the purpose that budding withers, that
> withering buds, whose blooming is a budding withering.

Samuel Beckett, _Watt_ (1953)