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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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Is this Beckett’s Message? Godot Arrives Whenever We Help a Fellow Human on the Spot

Absurdism in Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot"

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Quote Left Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on
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Quote Left The trouble with her was she had never been really born!
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Quote Left There is at least this to be said for mind, that it can dispel mind.
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Quote Left Birth was the death of him.
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Quote Left [T]he syndrome known as life is too diffuse to admit of palliation. For every symptom that is eased, another is made worse. The horse leech's ...
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