“Hamm: What's he doing?(CLOV raises lid of NAGG's bin, stoops, looks into it. Pause.)Clov: He's crying.(He closes lid, straightens up)Hamm: Then he's living.”

—  Samuel Beckett

Endgame (1957)

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Irish novelist, playwright, and poet 1906–1989

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