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“If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.”
Samuel Beckett, Happy Days
“That is what I find so wonderful, that not a day goes by....hardly a day, without some addition to one's knowledge however trifling, the addition I mean, provided one takes the pains.”
Samuel Beckett, Happy Days
“To be always what I am - and so changed from what I was.”
Samuel Beckett, Happy Days
“Ah earth you old extinguisher.”
Samuel Beckett, Happy Days
“Another happy day.”
Samuel Beckett, Happy Days
“To have been always what I am - and so changed from what I was.”
Samuel Beckett, Happy Days
WINNIE: Sometimes I am wrong. (Smile.) But not often. (Smile off.) Sometimes all is over, for the day, all done, all said, all ready for the night, and the day not over, far from over, the night not ready, far, far from ready. (Smile.) But not often. (Smile off.)”
Samuel Beckett, Happy Days
“Poor Willie - running out - ah well - can't be helped - just one of those old things - another of those old things - just can't be cured - cannot be cured - ah yes - poor dear Willie - good Lord! - good God! - ah well - no worse - no better, no worse - no change - no pain - hardly any - great thing that - nothing like it - pure ... what? - what? - ah yes - poor Willie - no zest - for anything - no interest - in life - poor dear Willie - sleep for ever - marvellous gift - in my opinion - always said so - wish I had it”
Samuel Beckett, Happy Days
“Here all is strange.”
Samuel Beckett, Happy Days
“Perhaps he is crying out for help all this time and I do not hear him! [Pause.] I do of course hear cries. [Pause.] But they are in my head surely. [Pause.] Is it possible that... [Pause. With finality] No no, my head was always full of cries. [Pause.] Faint confused cries. [Pause.] They come. [Pause.] Then go. [Pause.] As on a wind.”
Samuel Beckett, Happy Days
tags: cries
“On ne peut pas chanter comme ça, uniquement pour faire plaisir à l'autre, aussi cher soit-il, non, le chant doit venir du cœur, voilà ce que je dis toujours, couler de source, comme des merles.”
Samuel Beckett, Happy Days
“The earth is very tight today.”
Samuel Beckett, Happy Days
“Sometimes all is over, for the day, all done, all said, all ready for the night, and the day is not over, far from over, the night not ready, far, far from ready.”
Samuel Beckett, Happy Days
“That's what I find wonderful, all comes back.”
Samuel Beckett, Happy Days
“Tuhaf bir duygu, birisi bana bakıyormuş gibi. Önce net görünüyorum, sonra bulanık, sonra kayboluyorum, sonra yine bulanık, sonra yine net, ve böyle bir ileri bir geri sürüp gidiyor, birisinin gözüne görünüp kayboluyorum”
samuel beckett, Happy Days
“Tänään ei ole sen kummempaa kuin eilenkään eikä huomenna sen kummempaa kuin tänään, mahdotonta, ja niin edelleen niin pitkälle kuin silmä yltää, menneeseen ja tulevaan.”
Samuel Beckett, Happy Days
“Avoir été toujours celle que je suis — et être si différente de celle que j'étais. (Un temps.) Je suis l'une, je dis l'une, puis l'autre. (Un temps.) Tantôt l'une, tantôt l'autre.”
Samuel Beckett, Oh les Beaux Jours
“Strange feeling that someone is looking at me. I am clear, then dim, then gone, then dim again, then clear again, and so on, back and forth, in and out of someone's eye.”
Samuel Beckett, Happy Days