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Samuel Beckett

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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.

 
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Only now did the scales fall from my eyes. For how great is the force of credulity, how powerful the suggestion of terror! Such incomprehension! But this was a man! A chained-up man, whom I, by incomprehensible means, in a simplifying, metaphorical, and comprehensive elision, had taken for a dog.

 
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Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes;
Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart.

 
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You would have understood me, had you waited;
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Always to disagree.

 
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