Be, beget, begone.

 

Be, beget, begone.

 

William Saroyan

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I had to take the necessary steps to prevent this alleged suicide from getting known, to see the commissary of police and the "doctor of the dead." I had to preside at the funeral ceremonies, to receive the guests and act as chief mourner. And always, always, he was present to me, with the dagger in his breast, writing the lines that had saved me, and looking at me, while his lips moved.
Ah, begone, begone, abhorred phantom! Yes! I have done it; yes! I have killed you; yes! it was just. You know well that it was just. Why are you still here now? Ah! I will live; I will forget. If I could only cease to think of you for one day, only one day, just to breathe, and walk, and see the sky, without your image returning to haunt my poor head which is racked by this hallucination, and troubled? My God! have pity on me. I did not ask for this dreadful fate; it is Thou that hast sent it to me. Why dost Thou punish me? Oh, my God, have pity on me!

 

Paul Bourget

 

Dost thou wish me to complete the catalogue by thy death? Thy life is a worthless thing. Tempt me no more. I am but a man, and thy presence may awaken a fury which may spurn my control. Begone!

 

Charles Brockden Brown

 

Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.

 

Joseph Addison

 

It kills me to be time’s eunuch and never to beget.

 

Gerard Manley Hopkins

 

To mark all that I say in conversation, merely to beget in others, a good opinion of myself, and examine it.

 

Jonathan Edwards