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181 " The search for the means to put an end to things, an end to speech, is what enables the discourse to continue. "
― Samuel Beckett , The Unnamable
182 " أستطيع أن أميز بين الأصوات الخارجية.أوراق الشجر،تأوه الجذوع.الأغصان،حتى الأعشاب،كل شجرة لها صيحتها الخاصة،ولا تتشابه شجرتان همسهما. "
― Samuel Beckett , Malone Dies
183 " Who am I to tell my private nightmares to if I can’t tell them to you? "
― Samuel Beckett , Waiting for Godot
184 " لم نولد لنكون على الطريق نفسه. "
185 " Sometimes I went and looked at my grave. The stone was up already. It was a simple Latin cross, white. I wanted to have my name put on it, with the here lies and the date of my birth. Then all it would have wanted was the date of my death. They would not let me. Sometimes I smiled, as if I were dead already. "
― Samuel Beckett , Molloy
186 " Old endgame lost of old, play and lose and have done with losing. "
― Samuel Beckett , Endgame
187 " Habit is a compromise effected between the individual and his environment, or between the individual and his own organic eccentricities, the guarantee of a dull inviolability, the lightning-conductor of his existence. "
― Samuel Beckett , Proust
188 " It's a lot to ask of one creature, it's a lot to ask, that he should first behave as if he were not, then as if he were, before being admitted to that peace where he neither is, nor is not, and where the language dies that permits of such expressions. "
189 " 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. "
― Samuel Beckett , Watt
190 " I have spoken softly, gone my ways softly, all my days, as behoves one who has nothing to say, nowhere to go, and so nothing to gain by being seen or heard. "
191 " And what I have, what I am, is enough, was always enough for me, and as far as my dear little sweet little future is concerned I have no qualms, I have a good time coming. "
192 " What was God doing with himself before the creation? "
193 " That is one of the many reasons why I avoid speaking as much as possible. For I always say either too much or too little, which is a terrible thing for a man with a passion for truth like mine. "
194 " Live and invent. I have tried. I must have tried. Invent. It is not the word. Neither is to live. No matter. I have tried. [...] I say living without knowing what it is. I tried to live without knowing what I was trying. Perhaps I have lived afterall, without knowing. "
195 " My anger subsides, I'd like to pee. "
196 " : هذا النوع من الأغراء لا أريده الآن . إن حاجتي لجمال الحياة قد انتهت . واستطيع أن أموت اليوم إذا رغبت بمجرد مجهود صغير . "
197 " From the meanest creature one departs wiser, richer, more conscious of one's blessings. "
198 " How is it that of the four Evangelists only one speaks of a thief being save. The four of them were there-or therabouts-and only one speaks of a thief being saved. "
199 " لكن فكر فكر ، انت على الأرض ولاعلاج لذلك "
200 " The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors. Let us not speak well of it either. Let us not speak of it at all. It is true the population has increased. "