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Samuel Beckett Quote: “But there are not two laws, that was the next thing I thought I understood, not two laws, one for the healthy, another for the sick, but one only to which all must bow, rich and poor, young and old, happy and sad. He was eloquent. I pointed out that I was not sad. That was a mistake. Your papers, he said, I knew it a moment later. Not at all, I said, not at all. Your papers! he cried. Ah my papers.”

451. “But there are not two laws, that was the next thing I thought I understood, not two laws, one for the healthy, another for the sick, but one only to which all must bow, rich and poor, young and old, happy and sad. He was eloquent. I pointed out that I was not sad. That was a mistake. Your papers, he said, I knew it a moment later. Not at all, I said, not at all. Your papers! he cried. Ah my papers.”

— Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett Quote: “Let them be gone now, them and all the others, those I have used and those I have not used, give me back the pains I lent them and vanish, from my life, my memory, my terrors and shames. There, now there is no one here but me, no one wheels about me, no one comes toward me, no one has ever met anyone before my eyes, these creatures have never been, only I and this black void have ever been.”

452. “Let them be gone now, them and all the others, those I have used and those I have not used, give me back the pains I lent them and vanish, from my life, my memory, my terrors and shames. There, now there is no one here but me, no one wheels about me, no one comes toward me, no one has ever met anyone before my eyes, these creatures have never been, only I and this black void have ever been.”

— Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett Quote: “For the climber averse to avoidable acrobatics a given niche may lie so many paces or meters to east or west of the woman vanquished without of course his naming her thus or otherwise even in his thoughts.”

453. “For the climber averse to avoidable acrobatics a given niche may lie so many paces or meters to east or west of the woman vanquished without of course his naming her thus or otherwise even in his thoughts.”

— Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett Quote: “The turmoil of the day freezes in a thousand absurd postures.”

454. “The turmoil of the day freezes in a thousand absurd postures.”

— Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett Quote: “She was willing a little bit of sweated labour, incapable of betraying the slogan of her slavers, that since the customer or sucker was paying for his gutrot ten times what it cost to produce and five times what it cost to fling in his face, it was only reasonable to defer to his complaints up to but not exceeding fifty per cent of his exploitation.”

455. “She was willing a little bit of sweated labour, incapable of betraying the slogan of her slavers, that since the customer or sucker was paying for his gutrot ten times what it cost to produce and five times what it cost to fling in his face, it was only reasonable to defer to his complaints up to but not exceeding fifty per cent of his exploitation.”

— Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett Quote: “Say that again” said the red gash in the white putty.”

456. “Say that again” said the red gash in the white putty.”

— Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett Quote: “This version of the facts having been restored, it only remains to say it is no better than the other and no less incompatible with the kind of creature I might just conceivably have been if they had known how to take me. So let us consider now what really occurred.”

457. “This version of the facts having been restored, it only remains to say it is no better than the other and no less incompatible with the kind of creature I might just conceivably have been if they had known how to take me. So let us consider now what really occurred.”

— Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett Quote: “But all is forgotten and I have done nothing, unless what I am doing now is something, and nothing could give me greater satisfaction.”

458. “But all is forgotten and I have done nothing, unless what I am doing now is something, and nothing could give me greater satisfaction.”

— Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett Quote: “And I note here the little beat my heart once missed, in my home, when a fly, flying low above my ash-tray, raised a little ash, with the breath of its wings. And I grew gradually weaker and weaker and more and more content.”

459. “And I note here the little beat my heart once missed, in my home, when a fly, flying low above my ash-tray, raised a little ash, with the breath of its wings. And I grew gradually weaker and weaker and more and more content.”

— Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett Quote: “The inspection once completed it is usual to put everything carefully back in place as far as possible. It is enjoined by a certain ethics not to do unto others what coming from them might give offence.”

460. “The inspection once completed it is usual to put everything carefully back in place as far as possible. It is enjoined by a certain ethics not to do unto others what coming from them might give offence.”

— Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett Quote: “He will curse God again as in the blessed days face to the open sky the passing deluge. Face to calm eye touch close all calm all white all gone from mind.”

461. “He will curse God again as in the blessed days face to the open sky the passing deluge. Face to calm eye touch close all calm all white all gone from mind.”

— Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett Quote: “Scratch an old man and find a Quintilian.”

462. “Scratch an old man and find a Quintilian.”

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Samuel Beckett Quote: “And at the thought of the punishments Youdi might inflict upon me I was seized by such a mighty fit of laughter that I shook, with mightly silent laughter and my features composed in their wonted sadness and calm. But my whole body shook, and even my legs, so that I had to lean against a tree, or against a bush, when the fit came on me standing, my umbrella being no longer sufficient to keep me from falling. Strange laughter truly, and no doubt misnamed.”

463. “And at the thought of the punishments Youdi might inflict upon me I was seized by such a mighty fit of laughter that I shook, with mightly silent laughter and my features composed in their wonted sadness and calm. But my whole body shook, and even my legs, so that I had to lean against a tree, or against a bush, when the fit came on me standing, my umbrella being no longer sufficient to keep me from falling. Strange laughter truly, and no doubt misnamed.”

— Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett Quote: “Troviamo sempre qualcosa, vero, Didi, per darci l’impressione d’esistere?”

464. “Troviamo sempre qualcosa, vero, Didi, per darci l’impressione d’esistere?”

— Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett Quote: “I say living without knowing what it is. I tried to live without knowing what I was trying.”

465. “I say living without knowing what it is. I tried to live without knowing what I was trying.”

— Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett Quote: “Ho trascinato la mia sporca vita attraverso il deserto! E tu vorresti che ci vedessi delle sfumature!”

466. “Ho trascinato la mia sporca vita attraverso il deserto! E tu vorresti che ci vedessi delle sfumature!”

— Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett Quote: “Leave them there, sweating and icy, there is better elsewhere. No, life ends and no, there is nothing elsewhere, and no question now of ever finding again that white speck lost in whiteness, to see if they still lie still in the stress of that storm, or of a worse storm, or in the black dark for good, or the great whiteness unchanging, and if not what they are doing.”

467. “Leave them there, sweating and icy, there is better elsewhere. No, life ends and no, there is nothing elsewhere, and no question now of ever finding again that white speck lost in whiteness, to see if they still lie still in the stress of that storm, or of a worse storm, or in the black dark for good, or the great whiteness unchanging, and if not what they are doing.”

— Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett Quote: “Gnawing to be gone. Less no good. Worse no good. Only one good. Gone. Gone for good. Till then gnaw on. All gnaw on. To be gone.”

468. “Gnawing to be gone. Less no good. Worse no good. Only one good. Gone. Gone for good. Till then gnaw on. All gnaw on. To be gone.”

— Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett Quote: “Un luogo incantevole. Panorami ridenti. Andiamocene.”

469. “Un luogo incantevole. Panorami ridenti. Andiamocene.”

— Samuel Beckett

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