Samuel Beckett

Résumé général

Date de naissance :	13 Avril 1906
Ville de naissance :	Foxrock
Nationalité :	France, Republic of Ireland
Sexe :	Masculin
Profession :	Novelist, Playwright, Writer, Translator, Poet
Religion :	Agnosticism, Atheism
Date de décès :	22 Décembre 1989
Cause du décès :	Emphysema
Ville de décès :	Paris

Biographie

Samuel Beckett est un écrivain, poète et dramaturge irlandais d'expressions anglaise et française. S'il est l'auteur de romans, tels que Molloy, Malone meurt et l'Innommable et de textes brefs en prose, son nom reste surtout associé au théâtre de l'absurde, dont sa pièce En attendant Godot est...

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Experience professionnelle

N/C

École Normale Supérieure

Education

1923 - 1927

Bachelor's degree French Language,Italian Language,English Literature - Trinity College, Dublin

Citations de Samuel Beckett

• “ Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.”
• “ Habit is a great deadener.”
• “ Birth was the death of him.”

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• “ Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.”
• “ Habit is a great deadener.”
• “ Birth was the death of him.”
• “ What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.”
• “ To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.”
• “ Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”
• “ There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.”
• “ Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.”
• “ Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful.”
• “ Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.”
• “ To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.”
• “ Make sense who may. I switch off.”
• “ Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.”
• “ We are all born mad. Some remain so.”
• “ We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?”
• “ Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes Than the first four hours of a diet.”
• “ Words are all we have.”
• “ The bastard! He doesn't exist!”
• “ How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.”
• “ We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.”
• “ I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.”
• “ The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.”

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