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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.”

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“O hábito é uma grande surdina.”

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

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

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Samuel Beckett: Frases em inglês

“Not to want to say, not to know what you want to say, not to be able to say what you think you want to say, and never to stop saying, or hardly ever, that is the thing to keep in mind, even in the heat of composition.”

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Samuel Beckett livro Molloy

Molloy (1951)

“The expression that there is nothing to express, nothing with which to express, nothing from which to express, no power to express, no desire to express, together with the obligation to express.”

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Samuel Beckett livro Three Dialogues

Also quoted in &quot;Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde by Charles Juliet&quot; by Nicholas Lezard, in The Guardian (23 January 2010) http://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/jan/23/conversations-samuel-beckett-van-velde <br class="br">Three Dialogues (1949)

“I grow gnomic. It is the last phase.”

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The Letters of Samuel Becket 1929–1940 (2009), p. 209

“It sometimes happens and will sometimes happen again that I forget who I am and strut before my eyes, like a stranger.”

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Samuel Beckett livro Molloy

Molloy (1951)

“To know nothing is nothing, not to want to know anything likewise, but to be beyond knowing anything, to know you are beyond knowing anything, that is when peace enters in, to the soul of the incurious seeker.”

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Samuel Beckett livro Molloy

Molloy (1951)

“In me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.”

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Samuel Beckett livro Molloy

Molloy (1951)

“It’s to me this evening something has to happen, to my body as in myth and metamorphosis, this old body to which nothing ever happened, or so little, which never met with anything, wished for anything, in its tarnished universe, except for the mirrors to shatter, the plane, the curved, the magnifying, the minifying, and to vanish in the havoc of its images.”

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The Calmative (1946)

“Bid us sigh on from day to day,
And wish and wish the soul away,
Till youth and genial years are flown,
And all the life of life is gone.”

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Samuel Beckett livro Watt

Addenda, p. 248
Watt (1943)

“This place, if I could describe this place, no place around me, there’s no end to me, I don’t know what it is, it isn’t flesh, it doesn’t end, it’s like air…”

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Samuel Beckett livro The Unnamable

The Unnamable (1954)

“Spend the years of learning squandering
Courage for the years of wandering
Through a world politely turning
From the loutishness of learning.”

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"Gnome" in Dublin Magazine Vol. 9 (1934), p. 8

“He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.”

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Samuel Beckett livro Malone Dies

Malone Dies (1951)

“There is something … more important in life than punctuality, and that is decorum.”

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Samuel Beckett livro Molloy

Molloy (1951)

“Consider: the darkening ease, the brightening trouble; the pleasure pleasure because it was, the pain pain because it shall be; the glad acts grown proud, the proud acts growing stubborn; the panting and trembling towards a being gone, a being to come; and the true true no longer, and the false true not yet. And to decide not to smile after all, sitting in the shade, hearing the cicadas, wishing it were night, wishing it were morning, saying, No, it is not the heart, no, it is not the liver, no, it is not the prostate, no, it is not the ovaries, no, it is muscular, it is nervous.”

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Samuel Beckett livro Watt

Part III, p. 201
Watt (1943)

“I have always been amazed at my contemporaries’ lack of finesse, I whose soul writhed from morning to night, in the mere quest of itself.”

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The Expelled (1946)

“Ah if only this voice could stop, this meaningless voice which prevents you from being nothing, just barely prevents you from being nothing and nowhere, just enough to keep alight this little yellow flame feebly darting from side to side, panting, as if straining to tear itself from its wick, it should never have been lit, or it should never have been fed, or it should have been put out, put out, it should have been let go out.”

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Samuel Beckett livro The Unnamable

The Unnamable (1954)

“Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.”

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Samuel Beckett livro The Unnamable

The Unnamable (1954)

“The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.”

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Samuel Beckett livro Molloy

Molloy (1951)

“All this business of a labour to accomplish, before I can end, of words to say, a truth to recover, in order to say it, before I can end, of an imposed task, once known, long neglected, finally forgotten, to perform, before I can be done with speaking, done with listening, I invented it all, in the hope it would console me, help me to go on, allow me to think of myself as somewhere on a road, moving, between a beginning and an end, gaining ground, losing ground, getting lost, but somehow in the long run making headway.”

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Samuel Beckett livro The Unnamable

The Unnamable (1954)

“I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.”

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The Calmative (1946)

“These things I say, and shall say, if I can, are no longer, or are not yet, or never were, or never will be, or if they were, if they are, if they will be, were not here, are not here, will not be here, but elsewhere.”

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Samuel Beckett livro The Unnamable

The Unnamable (1954)

“Krapp: Ah finish your booze now and get to your bed. Go on with this drivel in the morning. Or leave it at that. (Pause.) Leave it at that.”

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Samuel Beckett Krapp's Last Tape

Krapp's Last Tape (1958)

“I felt weak, perhaps I was.”

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The End (1946)

“And once again I am I will not say alone, no, that's not like me, but, how shall I say, I don't know, restored to myself, no, I never left myself, free, yes, I don't know what that means but it's the word I mean to use, free to do what, to do nothing, to know, but what, the laws of the mind perhaps, of my mind, that for example water rises in proportion as it drowns you and that you would do better, at least no worse, to obliterate texts than to blacken margins, to fill in the holes of words till all is blank and flat and the whole ghastly business looks like what is, senseless, speechless, issueless misery.”

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Samuel Beckett livro Molloy

Molloy (1951)

“It means what it says.”

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Said about Waiting for Godot, from Jonathan Croall, The Coming of Godot (2005) ISBN 1-840-02595-6, p. 91

“The essential is to go on squirming forever at the end of the line, as long as there are waters and banks and ravening in heaven a sporting god to plague his creatures, per pro his chosen shits.”

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Samuel Beckett livro The Unnamable

The Unnamable (1954)

“The confusion is not my invention. We cannot listen to a conversation for five minutes without being acutely aware of the confusion. It is all around us and our only chance now is to let it in.”

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Samuel Beckett

Tom F. Driver, &quot;Beckett by the Madeleine&quot; (1961), Columbia University Forum 4 (Summer 1961): 21-25; it later appeared in Stanley A. Clayes, ed., Drama and Discussion (1967), pp. 604-7, as quoted in &quot;Rick On Theater&quot; 25 January 2018 http://rickontheater.blogspot.com/2018/01/beckett-by-madeleine.html.

“Birth was the death of him.”

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Samuel Beckett A Piece of Monologue

A Piece of Monologue (1979)