Samuel Beckett Quotes

Enough of acting the infant who has been told so often how he was found under a cabbage that in the end he remembers the exact spot in the garden and the kind of life he led there before joining the family circle.

- Samuel Beckett

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Acting | Infant | Told | Cabbage | Remembers |

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