Dante and the Lobster Quotes

“qui vive la pietà quando è ben morta”
― Samuel Beckett, Dante and the Lobster

“For the tiller of the field the thing was simple, he had it from his mother. The spots were Cain with his truss of thorns, dispossessed, cursed from the earth, fugitive and vagabond. The moon was that countenance fallen and branded, seared with the first stigma of God's pity, that an outcast might not die quickly. It was a mix-up in the mind of the tiller, but that did not matter. It had been good enough for his mother, it was good enough for him.”
― Samuel Beckett, Dante and the Lobster