Samuel Beckett
Playwright, Novelist
"I gave up before birth."
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Futility
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Henry James
Author
"The fatal futility of Fact."
Kurt Vonnegut
Novelist, Satirist
"The complicated futility of ignorance."
Franklin P. Adams
Writer, Journalist
"Accustomed as I am to public speaking, I know the futility of it."
Zhuangzi
Philosopher
"All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility."
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"Name, no, nothing is nameable, tell, no, nothing can be told, what then, I don't know, I shouldn't have begun."
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"The author of the Mahabharata has not established the necessity of physical warfare; on the contrary he has proved its futility."
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"How I hated the dark part of me that continually foretold of failure or futility."
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"The dread of futility has been my life-long plague."
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