Samuel Beckett ✓

(1906–1989) linguist Ireland

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[Wikidata] Irish writer (1906–1989)... | [Wikipedia] Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish novelist, playwright, poet, and literary critic. Written in both English and French, his literary and theatrical works feature bleak, impersonal, and tragicomic episodes of life, coupled with black comedy and literary nonsense. Beckett is widely regarded as one of

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• Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude,… Best
• Not to want to say, not to know what you want to say, not to be able to say what you think you want to… Able
• I love order. It's my dream. A world where all would be silent and still, and each thing in its last place, under the last… All
• If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am… Able
• In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg. Shall I swallow cave-phantoms? Bacon
• The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust Aversion
• It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home, ... what it is to be at home? A lingering dissolution. Abroad
• Dying for dark - the darker the worse. Strange. Dark
• What is that unforgettable line? Inspirational
• Vladimir: I don't understand. Estragon: Use your intelligence, can't you? Vladimir uses his intelligence. Vladimir: (finally) I remain in the dark. Dark
• To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten. Cross
• Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful. Awful
• Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned. According
• It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible. Effect
• We wait. We are bored. (He throws up his hand.) No, don't protest, we are bored to death, there's no denying it. Good. A diversion… Advances
• Was I asleep? Had I slept? Asleep
• VLADIMIR: What do they say? ESTRAGON: They talk about their lives. VLADIMIR: To have lived is not enough for them. ESTRAGON: They have to talk… Estragon
• And what I have, what I am, is enough, was always enough for me, and as far as my dear little sweet little future is… Always Enough
• There is man in his entirety, blaming his shoe when his foot is guilty. Blame
• I am still alive then. That may come in useful. Alive
• We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist? Always Find
• It's a lot to ask of one creature, it's a lot to ask, that he should first behave as if he were not, then as… Admitted
• Dear incomprehension, it's thanks to you I'll be myself, in the end. Dear
• The essential doesn't change. Change
• There's no lack of void. Funny

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