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He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.

— Samuel Beckett Malone Dies (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?

Malone Dies (1951)

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

Murphy (1938)

Personally of course I regret everything.

Watt (1943)

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

Molloy (1951)

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

The Expelled (1946)

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