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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 What are we doing here, that is the question. Quote Right
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Quote Left We are all born mad. Some remain so. Quote Right
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Quote Left Allusion has been made to [Proust's] contempt for the literature that 'describes,' for the realists and naturalists worshipping the offal of e... Quote Right
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Quote Left They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more. Quote Right
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Quote Left Make sense who may. I switch off. Quote Right
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