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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

“To go on means going from here, means finding me, losing me, vanishing and beginning again, a stranger first, then little by little the same as always, in another place, where I shall say I have always been, of which I shall know nothing, being incapable of seeing, moving, thinking, speaking, but of which little by little, in spite of these handicaps, I shall begin to know something, just enough for it to turn out to be the same place as always, the same which seems made for me and does not want me, which I seem to want and do not want, take your choice, which spews me out or swallows me up, I’ll never know, which is perhaps merely the inside of my distant skull where once I wandered, now am fixed, lost for tininess, or straining against the walls, with my head, my hands, my feet, my back, and ever murmuring my old stories, my old story, as if it were the first time.”

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Samuel Beckett książka The Unnamable

The Unnamable (1954)

“I, of whom I know nothing, I know my eyes are open, because of the tears that pour from them unceasingly.”

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Samuel Beckett książka The Unnamable

The Unnamable (1954)

“I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.”

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Samuel Beckett

The End (1946)

“What can it matter to me, that I succeed or fail? The undertaking is none of mine, if they want me to succeed I’ll fail, and vice versa, so as not to be rid of my tormentors.”

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Samuel Beckett książka The Unnamable

The Unnamable (1954)

“My keepers, why keepers, I'm in no danger of stirring an inch, ah I see, it's to make me think I'm a prisoner, frantic with corporeality, rearing to get out and away.”

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Samuel Beckett książka Texts for Nothing

Texts for Nothing (1955)

“We are no longer the same, you wiser but not sadder, and I sadder but not wiser, for wiser I could hardly become without grave personal inconvenience, whereas sorrow is a thing you can keep adding to all your life long, is it not, like a stamp or an egg collection, without feeling very much the worse for it, is it not.”

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Samuel Beckett książka Watt

Part I, p. 50
Watt (1943)

“I get up, go out, and everything is changed. The blood drains from my head, the noise of things bursting, merging, avoiding one another, assails me on all sides, my eyes search in vain for two things alike, each pinpoint of skin screams a different message, I drown in the spray of phenomena.”

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Samuel Beckett książka Molloy

Molloy (1951)

“Hamm: What's he doing?(CLOV raises lid of NAGG's bin, stoops, looks into it. Pause.)Clov: He's crying.(He closes lid, straightens up)Hamm: Then he's living.”

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Samuel Beckett

Endgame (1957)

“Perhaps it's done already, perhaps they have said me already, perhaps they have carried me to the threshold of my story, before the door that opens on my story, that would surprise me, if it opens, it will be I, it will be the silence, where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.”

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Samuel Beckett książka The Unnamable

The Unnamable (1954)

“At no moment do I know what I’m talking about, nor of whom, nor of where, nor how, nor why, but I could employ fifty wretches for this sinister operation and still be short of the fifty-first, to close the circuit, that I know, without knowing what it means.”

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Samuel Beckett książka The Unnamable

The Unnamable (1954)

“But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into words, he had made a pillow of old words, for his head.”

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Samuel Beckett książka Watt

Part II, p. 117
Watt (1943)

“They never lynch children, babies, no matter what they do they are whitewashed in advance.”

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Samuel Beckett

The Expelled (1946)

“Tears, that could be the tone, if they weren't so easy, the true tone and tenor at last.”

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Samuel Beckett książka Texts for Nothing

Texts for Nothing (1955)

“A mask of dirty old hairy leather, with two holes and a slit, it was too far gone for the old trick of please your honour and God reward you and pity upon me. It was disastrous.”

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Samuel Beckett

The End (1946)

“Yes, yes, I am mistaken, I am mistaken.”

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Samuel Beckett książka Three Dialogues

Three Dialogues (1949)

“Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.”

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Samuel Beckett książka The Unnamable

The Unnamable (1954)

“Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was, but that I was, forgot to be.”

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Samuel Beckett książka Molloy

Molloy (1951)

“Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little.”

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Samuel Beckett

The Expelled (1946)

“The time-state of attainment eliminates so accurately the time-state of aspiration, that the actual seems the inevitable, and, all conscious intellectual effort to reconstitute the invisible and unthinkable as a reality being fruitless, we are incapable of appreciating our joy by comparing it with our sorrow.”

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Samuel Beckett książka Proust

Proust (1957), p. 4

“Krapp: Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now.”

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Samuel Beckett Krapp's Last Tape

Krapp's Last Tape (1958)

“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.”

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Samuel Beckett From an Abandoned Work

From an Abandoned Work (1957)

“Hamm: There's something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.”

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Samuel Beckett

Endgame (1957)

“To restore silence is the role of objects.”

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Samuel Beckett książka Molloy

Molloy (1951)

“It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.”

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Samuel Beckett

The End (1946)

“For the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak of it as though it were something, just as the only way one can speak of God is to speak of him as though he were a man, which to be sure he was, in a sense, for a time, and as the only way one can speak of man, even our anthropologists have realized that, is to speak of him as though he were a termite.”

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Samuel Beckett książka Watt

Part II, p. 77
Watt (1943)

“Hamm: Look at the ocean!(Clov gets down, takes a few steps towards window left, goes back for ladder, carries it over and sets it down under window left, gets up on it, turns the telescope on the without, looks at length. He starts, lowers the telescope, examines it, turns it again on the without.)Clov: Never seen anything like that!Hamm (anxious): What? A sail? A fin? Smoke?Clov (looking): The light is sunk. Hamm (relieved): Pah! We all knew that. Clov (looking): There was a bit left. Hamm: The base. Clov (looking): Yes. Hamm: And now? Clov (looking): All gone. Hamm: No gulls? Clov (looking): Gulls! Hamm: And the horizon? Nothing on the horizon? Clov (lowering the telescope, turning towards Hamm, exasperated): What in God's name could there be on the horizon? (Pause.) Hamm: The waves, how are the waves? Clov: The waves? (He turns the telescope on the waves.) Lead. Hamm: And the sun? Clov (looking): Zero. Hamm: But it should be sinking. Look again. Clov (looking): Damn the sun. Hamm: Is it night already then? Clov (looking): No. Hamm: Then what is it? Clov (looking): Gray. (Lowering the telescope, turning towards Hamm, louder.) Gray! (Pause. Still louder.) GRRAY! (Pause. He gets down, approaches Hamm from behind, whispers in his ear.) Hamm (starting): Gray! Did I hear you say gray? Clov: Light black. From pole to pole.”

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Samuel Beckett

An explanation of the universe outside the room of Endgame
Endgame (1957)

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