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Does one ever know oneself why one laughs?

— Samuel Beckett The Expelled (1946)

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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.

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Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt,
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