“Here's my life, why not, it is one, if you like, if you must, I don't say no, this evening. There has to be one, it seems, once there is speech, no need of a story, a story is not compulsory, just a life, that's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough.”

— Samuel Beckett, book Texts for Nothing

Texts for Nothing (1955)

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Irish novelist, playwright, and poet 1906–1989

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