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Rainer Maria Rilke Poet, Novelist
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"the longer I live, the more necessary it seems to me to endure, to copy the whole dictation of existence to the end, for it might be that only the last sentence contains that small, perhaps inconspicuous word through which all laboriously learned and not understood orients itself toward glorious sense."

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Samuel Beckett Playwright, Novelist
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"I knew it would soon be the end, so I played the part, you know, the part of — how shall I say, I don’t know."

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"What have I always believed? That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right."

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