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Samuel Beckett

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Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, who lived in Paris for most of his adult life and wrote in both English and French. His work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human nature, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humour .


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Quote Left When the object is perceived as particular and unique and not merely the member of a family, when it appears independent of any general notion... Quote Right
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Quote Left Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes Than the first four hours of a diet. Quote Right
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Quote Left live the space of a door that opens and shuts Quote Right
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Quote Left As between these two, the need that in its haste to be abolished cannot pause to be stated and the need that is the absolute predicament of pa... Quote Right
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Quote Left The major sin is the sin of being born. Quote Right
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