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Samuel Beckett, Molloy Quotes: I was limply poking about in the garbage saying probably, for at that age I must still have been capable of general ideas, This is life.
         

I was limply poking about in the garbage saying probably, for at that age I must still have been capable of general ideas, This is life.


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