By nature I mean here, like the naïvest realist, a composite of perceiver and perceived, not a datum, an experience. (Samuel Beckett)

By nature I mean here, like the naïvest realist, a composite of perceiver and perceived, not a datum, an experience.

Samuel Beckett

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