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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

“Not to want to say, not to know what you want to say, not to be able to say what you think you want to say, and never to stop saying, or hardly ever, that is the thing to keep in mind, even in the heat of composition.”

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Samuel Beckett książka Molloy

Molloy (1951)

“The expression that there is nothing to express, nothing with which to express, nothing from which to express, no power to express, no desire to express, together with the obligation to express.”

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Samuel Beckett książka Three Dialogues

Also quoted in &quot;Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde by Charles Juliet&quot; by Nicholas Lezard, in The Guardian (23 January 2010) http://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/jan/23/conversations-samuel-beckett-van-velde <br class="br">Three Dialogues (1949)

“I grow gnomic. It is the last phase.”

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Samuel Beckett

The Letters of Samuel Becket 1929–1940 (2009), p. 209

“It sometimes happens and will sometimes happen again that I forget who I am and strut before my eyes, like a stranger.”

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Samuel Beckett książka Molloy

Molloy (1951)

“To know nothing is nothing, not to want to know anything likewise, but to be beyond knowing anything, to know you are beyond knowing anything, that is when peace enters in, to the soul of the incurious seeker.”

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Samuel Beckett książka Molloy

Molloy (1951)

“In me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.”

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Samuel Beckett książka Molloy

Molloy (1951)

“It’s to me this evening something has to happen, to my body as in myth and metamorphosis, this old body to which nothing ever happened, or so little, which never met with anything, wished for anything, in its tarnished universe, except for the mirrors to shatter, the plane, the curved, the magnifying, the minifying, and to vanish in the havoc of its images.”

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Samuel Beckett

The Calmative (1946)

“Bid us sigh on from day to day,
And wish and wish the soul away,
Till youth and genial years are flown,
And all the life of life is gone.”

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Samuel Beckett książka Watt

Addenda, p. 248
Watt (1943)

“This place, if I could describe this place, no place around me, there’s no end to me, I don’t know what it is, it isn’t flesh, it doesn’t end, it’s like air…”

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Samuel Beckett książka The Unnamable

The Unnamable (1954)

“Spend the years of learning squandering
Courage for the years of wandering
Through a world politely turning
From the loutishness of learning.”

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Samuel Beckett

"Gnome" in Dublin Magazine Vol. 9 (1934), p. 8

“He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.”

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Samuel Beckett książka Malone Dies

Malone Dies (1951)

“There is something … more important in life than punctuality, and that is decorum.”

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Samuel Beckett książka Molloy

Molloy (1951)

“Consider: the darkening ease, the brightening trouble; the pleasure pleasure because it was, the pain pain because it shall be; the glad acts grown proud, the proud acts growing stubborn; the panting and trembling towards a being gone, a being to come; and the true true no longer, and the false true not yet. And to decide not to smile after all, sitting in the shade, hearing the cicadas, wishing it were night, wishing it were morning, saying, No, it is not the heart, no, it is not the liver, no, it is not the prostate, no, it is not the ovaries, no, it is muscular, it is nervous.”

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Samuel Beckett książka Watt

Part III, p. 201
Watt (1943)

“I have always been amazed at my contemporaries’ lack of finesse, I whose soul writhed from morning to night, in the mere quest of itself.”

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Samuel Beckett

The Expelled (1946)

“Ah if only this voice could stop, this meaningless voice which prevents you from being nothing, just barely prevents you from being nothing and nowhere, just enough to keep alight this little yellow flame feebly darting from side to side, panting, as if straining to tear itself from its wick, it should never have been lit, or it should never have been fed, or it should have been put out, put out, it should have been let go out.”

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Samuel Beckett książka The Unnamable

The Unnamable (1954)

“Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.”

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Samuel Beckett książka The Unnamable

The Unnamable (1954)

“The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.”

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Samuel Beckett książka Molloy

Molloy (1951)

“All this business of a labour to accomplish, before I can end, of words to say, a truth to recover, in order to say it, before I can end, of an imposed task, once known, long neglected, finally forgotten, to perform, before I can be done with speaking, done with listening, I invented it all, in the hope it would console me, help me to go on, allow me to think of myself as somewhere on a road, moving, between a beginning and an end, gaining ground, losing ground, getting lost, but somehow in the long run making headway.”

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Samuel Beckett książka The Unnamable

The Unnamable (1954)

“I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.”

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Samuel Beckett

The Calmative (1946)

“These things I say, and shall say, if I can, are no longer, or are not yet, or never were, or never will be, or if they were, if they are, if they will be, were not here, are not here, will not be here, but elsewhere.”

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Samuel Beckett książka The Unnamable

The Unnamable (1954)

“Krapp: Ah finish your booze now and get to your bed. Go on with this drivel in the morning. Or leave it at that. (Pause.) Leave it at that.”

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Samuel Beckett Krapp's Last Tape

Krapp's Last Tape (1958)

“I felt weak, perhaps I was.”

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Samuel Beckett

The End (1946)

“And once again I am I will not say alone, no, that's not like me, but, how shall I say, I don't know, restored to myself, no, I never left myself, free, yes, I don't know what that means but it's the word I mean to use, free to do what, to do nothing, to know, but what, the laws of the mind perhaps, of my mind, that for example water rises in proportion as it drowns you and that you would do better, at least no worse, to obliterate texts than to blacken margins, to fill in the holes of words till all is blank and flat and the whole ghastly business looks like what is, senseless, speechless, issueless misery.”

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Samuel Beckett książka Molloy

Molloy (1951)

“It means what it says.”

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Samuel Beckett

Said about Waiting for Godot, from Jonathan Croall, The Coming of Godot (2005) ISBN 1-840-02595-6, p. 91

“The essential is to go on squirming forever at the end of the line, as long as there are waters and banks and ravening in heaven a sporting god to plague his creatures, per pro his chosen shits.”

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Samuel Beckett książka The Unnamable

The Unnamable (1954)

“The confusion is not my invention. We cannot listen to a conversation for five minutes without being acutely aware of the confusion. It is all around us and our only chance now is to let it in.”

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Samuel Beckett

Tom F. Driver, &quot;Beckett by the Madeleine&quot; (1961), Columbia University Forum 4 (Summer 1961): 21-25; it later appeared in Stanley A. Clayes, ed., Drama and Discussion (1967), pp. 604-7, as quoted in &quot;Rick On Theater&quot; 25 January 2018 http://rickontheater.blogspot.com/2018/01/beckett-by-madeleine.html.

“Birth was the death of him.”

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Samuel Beckett A Piece of Monologue

A Piece of Monologue (1979)

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