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" With a cluther of limbs and organs, all that is needed to live again, to hold out a little time, I'll call that living, I'll say it's me, I'll get standing, I'll stop thinking, I'll be too busy, getting standing, staying standing, stirring about, holding out, getting to tomorrow, tomorrow week, that will be ample, a week will be ample, a week in spring, that puts the jizz in you. "
― Samuel Beckett , Texts for Nothing and Other Shorter Prose 1950-1976
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" There's my life, why not, it is one, if you like, if you must, I don't say no, this evening. There has to be one, it seems, once there is speech, no need of a story, a story is not compulsory, just a life, that's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough. "
― Samuel Beckett , Texts for Nothing and Other Shorter Prose 1950-1976
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" ...this evening it's too late, too late to get things right, I'll go to sleep, so that I may say, hear myself say, a little later, I've slept, he's slept, but he won't have slept, or else he's sleeping now, he'll have done nothing, nothing but go on, doing what, doing what he does, that is to say, I don't know, giving up, that's it, I'll have gone on giving up, having had nothing, not being there. "
― Samuel Beckett , Texts for Nothing and Other Shorter Prose 1950-1976
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" Noh, see on mu elu, miks mitte, see ta on, kui sulle nii meeldib, kui sa just pead, täna õhtul ma vastu ei vaidle. Peab ju olema, tundub, niivõrd kui on ju kõne, loo järele pole vajadust, lugu pole kohustuslik, ainult elu, see ongi viga mille tegin, üks vigadest – tahta endale lugu –, samas kui elust endast piisab täiesti. Ma teen edusamme, oli ka aeg, õpin oma rumalat suud kinni hoidma enne kui minuga otsad on, kui mitte midagi ennustatut ei juhtu. Aga tema? Tema, kes aina tuleb ja läheb, ilma igasuguse abita, aina kohast kohta, kuigi temaga mitte midagi ei juhtu, tõsi, kuidas jääb temaga? Mina jään igatahes siia, istuma, kui ma parasjagu istun, tunnen tihti end istuvat, mõnikord seisvat, see on ikka emb või kumb, või maas lamamine, see on ka võimalus, tihti avastan end ka maas lamamas, ikka ja jälle üks neist kolmest, või põlvitamas. Mis loeb, on olla maailmas, asend pole oluline, niikaua kui viibitakse Maal. Vaja on ainult hingata, pole kohustust ringi luusida või külalisi vastu võtta, sa võid end soovi korral ka surnuks pidada ilma sellest numbrit tegemata. Millist vabamat elukorda võiks kujutleda, ma ei tea, ma ei kujutle. "
― Samuel Beckett , Texts for Nothing and Other Shorter Prose 1950-1976
