“He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.”

— Samuel Beckett , book Malone Dies

Malone Dies (1951)

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Irish novelist, playwright, and poet 1906–1989

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