“How all becomes clear and simple when one opens an eye on the within, having of course previously exposed it to the without, in order to benefit by the contrast.”

— Samuel Beckett , book The Unnamable

The Unnamable (1954)

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Irish novelist, playwright, and poet 1906–1989

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