“What makes me weep so? From time to time. There is nothing saddening here.”

—  Samuel Beckett , book The Unnamable

The Unnamable (1954)
Context: The tears stream down my cheeks from my unblinking eyes. What makes me weep so? From time to time. There is nothing saddening here. Perhaps it is liquefied brain.

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