05/06/2018
Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. ~ Samuel Beckett ~
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Many people are taught to adopt a negative attitude towards failure. However, failures are the best teachings that can happen to a person. We believe that there are no mistakes in life, only lessons to be learned. Failures are the stepping stones for success. How did you overcome your last failure?
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Samuel Barclay Beckett (1906 – 1989) was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, poet, and literary translator who lived in Paris for most of his adult life. He wrote in both English and French.
Beckett's work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human existence, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humor, and became increasingly minimalist in his later career. He is considered one of the last modernist writers, and one of the key figures in what Martin Esslin called the "Theatre of the Absurd".
Beckett was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his writing, which—in new forms for the novel and drama—in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation".
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