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The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaningless-ness.

Martin Esslin

The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaningless-ness.

Tags: homo, sapiens

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About Martin Esslin

Martin Julius Esslin OBE (6 June 1918 – 24 February 2002) was a Hungarian-born British producer, dramatist, journalist, adaptor and translator, critic, academic scholar and professor of drama, known for coining the term "theatre of the absurd" in his 1961 book The Theatre of the Absurd. This work has been called "the most influential theatrical text of the 1960s".