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Samuel Barclay Beckett – irlandzki dramaturg, prozaik i eseista, tworzący początkowo w języku angielskim, a od 1945 – francuskim. Jeden z twórców teatru absurdu. Jego powieści są pozbawiane tradycyjnej narracji, utrzymane w klimacie skrajnego pesymizmu i podkreślające bezsens ludzkiej egzystencji. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. Kwiecień 1906 – 22. Grudzień 1989
Samuel Beckett Fotografia
Samuel Beckett: 135 cytatów9 Polubień

Samuel Beckett słynne cytaty

To tłumaczenie czeka na recenzję. Czy to jest poprawne?

„Kiedykolwiek próbowałeś. Kiedykolwiek Ci się nie udało. Nieważne. Spróbuj jeszcze raz. Przegraj jeszcze raz. Przegraj lepiej.”

Samuel Beckett

Wariant: Spróbowałem. Poniosłem porażkę. Nieważne. Spróbuję jeszcze raz. Znowu poniosę porażkę. Tym razem lepszą/mniejszą.

„Wszyscy rodzimy się szaleni. Niektórzy już tacy pozostają.”

Samuel Beckett Czekając na Godota

Czekając na Godota
Źródło: akt II, tłum. Antoni Libera

„Tu leży ten. co zwiał z tak daleka,
że nie wcześniej niż teraz stąd ucieka.”

Samuel Beckett

Ci-gît qui y échappa tant. Qu’il n’en échappe que maintenant. (fr.)
Źródło: Pierwsza miłość, tłum. Maria Ziębina

„z każdą inaczej i tak samo
z każdą brak miłości jest inny
z każdą brak miłości jest ten sam”

Samuel Beckett

Źródło: przychodzą… z cyklu Wiersze 1937–1939, tłum. Julia Hartwig

„Jeden z łotrów został zbawiony. Przyzwoity procent.”

Samuel Beckett Czekając na Godota

Czekając na Godota
Źródło: akt I, tłum. Antoni Libera

„To jest brzydkie, to jest brudne, to jest zasmucające, to jest niezdrowe, to jest puste i nędzne… filozofia infantylna.”

Samuel Beckett

O Samuelu Becketcie

Samuel Beckett cytaty

„(…) w tym miejscu i w danym momencie ludzkość cała to my, czy nam się podoba, czy nie.”

Samuel Beckett Czekając na Godota

Czekając na Godota
Źródło: akt II, tłum. Antoni Libera

„Moje serce nie puka. Odgłosu, jak wydaje ta stara pompa należałoby szukać raczej w świecie hydrauliki.”

Samuel Beckett książka Molloy

For it does not beat, not my heart, I’d have to refer you to hydraulics for the squelch that old pump makes. (ang.) <br class="br">Źródło: Molloy http://books.google.pl/books?id=sglVtT7_nH4C&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;source=gbs_ge_summary_r&amp;cad=0#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false, Grove Press, 1994, s. 121.

„Musi być pan bardzo zmęczony.”

Samuel Beckett

odpowiedź na zdanie „Czytam pana dzieła przez całe życie”.
Źródło: Mel Gussow, Conversations With and About Beckett

„Pierw taniec, następnie myśl. Taki jest naturalny porządek.”

Samuel Beckett

Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order. (ang.)

„Oto właśnie cały człowiek, winę nogi zwala na but.”

Samuel Beckett Czekając na Godota

Czekając na Godota
Źródło: akt I, tłum. Antoni Libera

„Każde słowo jest jak niepotrzebna plama na ciszy i nicości.”

Samuel Beckett

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness. (ang.) <br class="br">Źródło: Beckett wins a Nobel prize http://books.google.pl/books?id=5FAEAAAAMBAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;source=gbs_ge_summary_r&amp;cad=0#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false [w:] „Life” nr 19, rocznik 67, 7 listopada 1969, s. 93.

Samuel Beckett: Cytaty po angielsku

“What I assert, deny, question, in the present, I still can. But mostly I shall use the various tenses of the past. For mostly I do not know, it is perhaps no longer so, it is too soon to know, I simply do not know, perhaps shall never know.”

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Samuel Beckett książka Molloy

Molloy (1951)

“God is a witness that cannot be sworn.”

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Samuel Beckett książka Watt

Part I, p. 4
Watt (1943)

“There is a little of everything, apparently, in nature, and freaks are common.”

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Samuel Beckett książka Molloy

Molloy (1951)

“The long blue days, for his head, for his side, and the little paths for his feet, and all the brightness to touch and gather. Through the grass the little mosspaths, bony with old roots, and the trees sticking up, and the flowers sticking up, and the fruit hanging down, and the white exhausted butterflies, and the birds never the same darting all day long into hiding. And all the sounds, meaning nothing. Then at night rest in the quiet house, there are no roads, no streets any more, you lie down by a window opening on refuge, the little sounds come that demand nothing, ordain nothing, explain nothing, propound nothing, and the short necessary night is soon ended, and the sky blue again all over the secret places where nobody ever comes, the secret places never the same, but always simple and indifferent, always mere places, sites of a stirring beyond coming and going, of a being so light and free that it is as the being of nothing.”

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Samuel Beckett książka Watt

Part I, p. 39
Watt (1943)

“Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea.”

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Samuel Beckett książka Molloy

Molloy (1951)

“If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.”

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Samuel Beckett

As quoted in The Essential Samuel Beckett: An Illustrated Biography, by Enoch Brater (revised edition, 2003) ISBN 0-500-28411-3, p. 75

“Hamm: If I could sleep I might make love. I'd go into the woods. My eyes would see … the sky, the earth. I'd run, run, they wouldn't catch me.”

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Samuel Beckett

Endgame (1957)

“I felt ill at ease with all this air about me, lost before the confusion of innumerable prospects.”

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Samuel Beckett

The Expelled (1946)

“How all becomes clear and simple when one opens an eye on the within, having of course previously exposed it to the without, in order to benefit by the contrast.”

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Samuel Beckett książka The Unnamable

The Unnamable (1954)

“I don’t like animals. It’s a strange thing, I don’t like men and I don’t like animals. As for God, he is beginning to disgust me.”

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Samuel Beckett książka Molloy

Molloy (1951)

“My appearance still made people laugh, with that hearty jovial laugh so good for the health.”

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Samuel Beckett

The End (1946)

“Poor juvenile solutions, explaining nothing. No need then for caution, we may reason on to our heart’s content, the fog won’t lift.”

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Samuel Beckett

The Expelled (1946)

“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.”

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Samuel Beckett książka Imagination Dead Imagine

Imagination Dead Imagine (1965)

“No way in, go in, measure.”

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Samuel Beckett książka Imagination Dead Imagine

Imagination Dead Imagine (1965)

“The short winter’s day was drawing to a close. It seems to me sometimes that these are the only days I have ever known, and especially that most charming moment of all, just before night wipes them out.”

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Samuel Beckett

The Expelled (1946)

“How tell what remains? But it’s the end. Or have I been dreaming, am I dreaming? No no, none of that, for dream is nothing, a joke, and significant what is worse.”

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Samuel Beckett

The Calmative (1946)

“Here's my life, why not, it is one, if you like, if you must, I don't say no, this evening. There has to be one, it seems, once there is speech, no need of a story, a story is not compulsory, just a life, that's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough.”

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Samuel Beckett książka Texts for Nothing

Texts for Nothing (1955)

“Nell: Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.Nagg: Oh?Nell: Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh, we laugh, with a will, in the beginning. But it's always the same thing. Yes, it's like the funny story we have heard too often, we still find it funny, but we don't laugh any more.”

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Samuel Beckett

Endgame (1957)

“The memory came faint and cold of the story I might have told, a story in the likeness of my life, I mean without the courage to end or the strength to go on.”

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Samuel Beckett

The End (1946)

“Hamm: We're not beginning … to … to … mean something?
Clov: Mean something? You and I mean something?”

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Samuel Beckett

Endgame (1957)

“But he had hardly felt the absurdity of those things, on the one hand, and the necessity of those others, on the other (for it is rare that the feeling of absurdity is not followed by the feeling of necessity), when he felt the absurdity of those things of which he had just felt the necessity (for it is rare that the feeling of necessity is not followed by the feeling of absurdity).”

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Samuel Beckett książka Watt

Part II, p. 133
Watt (1943)

“But is it true love, in the rectum? That’s what bothers me sometimes.”

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Samuel Beckett książka Molloy

Molloy (1951)

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