“Hamm: If I could sleep I might make love. I'd go into the woods. My eyes would see … the sky, the earth. I'd run, run, they wouldn't catch me.”

—  Samuel Beckett

Endgame (1957)

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Irish novelist, playwright, and poet 1906–1989

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