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Samuel Barclay Beckett foi um dramaturgo e escritor irlandês.

Beckett é amplamente considerado como um dos escritores mais influentes do século XX. Fortemente influenciado por James Joyce, ele é considerado um dos últimos modernistas. Como inspiração para muitos escritores posteriores, ele às vezes também é considerado um dos primeiros pós-modernistas. Ele é um dos escritores fundamentais, no que Martin Esslin chamou de "Teatro do absurdo". Seu trabalho tornou-se cada vez mais minimalista em sua carreira mais tarde.

Recebeu o Nobel de Literatura de 1969. Utiliza nas suas obras, traduzidas em mais de trinta línguas, uma riqueza metafórica imensa, privilegiando uma visão pessimista acerca do fenômeno humano. É considerado um dos principais autores do denominado teatro do absurdo. Sua obra mais famosa tanto no Brasil como em Portugal é a peça Esperando Godot. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. Abril 1906 – 22. Dezembro 1989
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Samuel Beckett Frases famosas

“Não importa. Tente outra vez. Fracasse outra vez. Fracasse melhor.”

Samuel Beckett

No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Nohow on: three novels‎ - Página 89, Samuel Beckett - Grove Press, 1996, ISBN 0802134262, 9780802134264 - 116 páginas

“Sim, a partir do momento em que se conhece o porquê, tudo se torna mais fácil, uma simples questão de magia.”

Samuel Beckett

“A arte sempre foi isto - interrogação pura, questão retórica sem a retórica - embora se diga que aparece pela realidade social.”

Samuel Beckett

“Todos nós nascemos loucos. Alguns permanecem.”

Samuel Beckett

“A virtude absoluta mata o ser humano com tanta segurança como o vício absoluto, pela letargia e pomposidade que provocam.”

Samuel Beckett

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“Eles não disseram em tantas palavras que eu estava tão bem como jamais estaria, mas essa era a implicação.”

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Samuel Beckett frases e citações

“Toda palavra é como uma mácula desnecessária no silêncio e no nada.”

Samuel Beckett

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
citado em "Close-up‎" - Página 52, John Gruen - Viking Press, 1968 - 206 páginas

“É de mim agora que eu preciso falar, mesmo se eu tiver que fazê-lo com sua língua, será um começo, um passo em direção ao silêncio e ao fim da loucura.”

Samuel Beckett livro Molloy

It's of me now I must speak, even if I have to do it with their language, it will be a start, a step towards the silence and the end of madness
Molloy: a novel‎ - Página 449, Samuel Beckett - Grove Press, 1955 - 241 páginas

“As lágrimas do mundo são inalteráveis. Para cada um que começa a chorar, em algum lugar outro pára. O mesmo vale para o riso.”

Samuel Beckett

“O hábito é uma grande surdina.”

Samuel Beckett

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“Sim, houve momentos em que eu esqueci não apenas quem eu era, mas que eu era, esqueci de ser.”

Samuel Beckett

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“Eu me tornei gnômico. É a última fase.”

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Samuel Beckett: Frases em inglês

“To go on means going from here, means finding me, losing me, vanishing and beginning again, a stranger first, then little by little the same as always, in another place, where I shall say I have always been, of which I shall know nothing, being incapable of seeing, moving, thinking, speaking, but of which little by little, in spite of these handicaps, I shall begin to know something, just enough for it to turn out to be the same place as always, the same which seems made for me and does not want me, which I seem to want and do not want, take your choice, which spews me out or swallows me up, I’ll never know, which is perhaps merely the inside of my distant skull where once I wandered, now am fixed, lost for tininess, or straining against the walls, with my head, my hands, my feet, my back, and ever murmuring my old stories, my old story, as if it were the first time.”

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Samuel Beckett livro The Unnamable

The Unnamable (1954)

“I, of whom I know nothing, I know my eyes are open, because of the tears that pour from them unceasingly.”

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Samuel Beckett livro The Unnamable

The Unnamable (1954)

“I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.”

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Samuel Beckett

The End (1946)

“What can it matter to me, that I succeed or fail? The undertaking is none of mine, if they want me to succeed I’ll fail, and vice versa, so as not to be rid of my tormentors.”

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Samuel Beckett livro The Unnamable

The Unnamable (1954)

“My keepers, why keepers, I'm in no danger of stirring an inch, ah I see, it's to make me think I'm a prisoner, frantic with corporeality, rearing to get out and away.”

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Samuel Beckett livro Texts for Nothing

Texts for Nothing (1955)

“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.”

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Samuel Beckett livro Watt

Part I, p. 50
Watt (1943)

“I get up, go out, and everything is changed. The blood drains from my head, the noise of things bursting, merging, avoiding one another, assails me on all sides, my eyes search in vain for two things alike, each pinpoint of skin screams a different message, I drown in the spray of phenomena.”

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Samuel Beckett livro Molloy

Molloy (1951)

“Hamm: What's he doing?(CLOV raises lid of NAGG's bin, stoops, looks into it. Pause.)Clov: He's crying.(He closes lid, straightens up)Hamm: Then he's living.”

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Endgame (1957)

“Perhaps it's done already, perhaps they have said me already, perhaps they have carried me to the threshold of my story, before the door that opens on my story, that would surprise me, if it opens, it will be I, it will be the silence, where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.”

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Samuel Beckett livro The Unnamable

The Unnamable (1954)

“At no moment do I know what I’m talking about, nor of whom, nor of where, nor how, nor why, but I could employ fifty wretches for this sinister operation and still be short of the fifty-first, to close the circuit, that I know, without knowing what it means.”

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Samuel Beckett livro The Unnamable

The Unnamable (1954)

“But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into words, he had made a pillow of old words, for his head.”

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Samuel Beckett livro Watt

Part II, p. 117
Watt (1943)

“They never lynch children, babies, no matter what they do they are whitewashed in advance.”

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Samuel Beckett

The Expelled (1946)

“Tears, that could be the tone, if they weren't so easy, the true tone and tenor at last.”

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Samuel Beckett livro Texts for Nothing

Texts for Nothing (1955)

“A mask of dirty old hairy leather, with two holes and a slit, it was too far gone for the old trick of please your honour and God reward you and pity upon me. It was disastrous.”

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The End (1946)

“Yes, yes, I am mistaken, I am mistaken.”

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Samuel Beckett livro Three Dialogues

Three Dialogues (1949)

“Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.”

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Samuel Beckett livro The Unnamable

The Unnamable (1954)

“Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was, but that I was, forgot to be.”

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Samuel Beckett livro Molloy

Molloy (1951)

“Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little.”

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The Expelled (1946)

“The time-state of attainment eliminates so accurately the time-state of aspiration, that the actual seems the inevitable, and, all conscious intellectual effort to reconstitute the invisible and unthinkable as a reality being fruitless, we are incapable of appreciating our joy by comparing it with our sorrow.”

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Samuel Beckett livro Proust

Proust (1957), p. 4

“Krapp: Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now.”

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Samuel Beckett Krapp's Last Tape

Krapp's Last Tape (1958)

“Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.”

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Samuel Beckett From an Abandoned Work

From an Abandoned Work (1957)

“Hamm: There's something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.”

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Samuel Beckett

Endgame (1957)

“It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.”

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Samuel Beckett

The End (1946)

“For the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak of it as though it were something, just as the only way one can speak of God is to speak of him as though he were a man, which to be sure he was, in a sense, for a time, and as the only way one can speak of man, even our anthropologists have realized that, is to speak of him as though he were a termite.”

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Samuel Beckett livro Watt

Part II, p. 77
Watt (1943)

“Hamm: Look at the ocean!(Clov gets down, takes a few steps towards window left, goes back for ladder, carries it over and sets it down under window left, gets up on it, turns the telescope on the without, looks at length. He starts, lowers the telescope, examines it, turns it again on the without.)Clov: Never seen anything like that!Hamm (anxious): What? A sail? A fin? Smoke?Clov (looking): The light is sunk. Hamm (relieved): Pah! We all knew that. Clov (looking): There was a bit left. Hamm: The base. Clov (looking): Yes. Hamm: And now? Clov (looking): All gone. Hamm: No gulls? Clov (looking): Gulls! Hamm: And the horizon? Nothing on the horizon? Clov (lowering the telescope, turning towards Hamm, exasperated): What in God's name could there be on the horizon? (Pause.) Hamm: The waves, how are the waves? Clov: The waves? (He turns the telescope on the waves.) Lead. Hamm: And the sun? Clov (looking): Zero. Hamm: But it should be sinking. Look again. Clov (looking): Damn the sun. Hamm: Is it night already then? Clov (looking): No. Hamm: Then what is it? Clov (looking): Gray. (Lowering the telescope, turning towards Hamm, louder.) Gray! (Pause. Still louder.) GRRAY! (Pause. He gets down, approaches Hamm from behind, whispers in his ear.) Hamm (starting): Gray! Did I hear you say gray? Clov: Light black. From pole to pole.”

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Samuel Beckett

An explanation of the universe outside the room of Endgame
Endgame (1957)