One day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that not enough for you?

Samuel Beckett

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Samuel Barclay Beckett ( ; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish-born existentialist writer of novels, plays, short stories and poems. His literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal, and tragicomic experiences of life, often coupled with black comedy and nonsense. His work became increasingly minimalist as...

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