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There is a little of everything, apparently, in nature, and freaks are common.

— Samuel Beckett Molloy (1951)

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I am such a good man, at bottom, such a good man, how is it that nobody ever noticed it?

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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

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Personally of course I regret everything.

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They never lynch children, babies, no matter what they do they are whitewashed in advance.

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