Samuel Beckett

Ireland
13 Apr 1906 // 22 Dec 1989
Writer

Live and invent. I have tried. I must have tried. Invent. It is not the word. Neither is to live. No matter. I have tried. (...) I say living without knowing what it is. I tried to live without knowing what I was trying. Perhaps I have lived afterall, without knowing.

Malone Dies

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