Samuel Beckett

More from Samuel Beckett

• The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

  Murphy (1938), Part I (p. 1)

• 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.

  Molloy (1951)

  • Life & Death

• 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.

  The Unnamable (1954)

  • Talking

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