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Samuel Beckett Quotes: You are not satisfied unless form is so strictly divorced from content that you can comprehend the one without almost without bothering to read the other.
         

You are not satisfied unless form is so strictly divorced from content that you can comprehend the one without almost without bothering to read the other.


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