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Samuel Beckett Quotes: The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
         

The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.


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