Samuel Beckett

 « Il est si bon de savoir où l’on va, dans les premiers temps. Ca vous enlève presque l’envie d’y aller. »

S. Beckett Molloy  éd. de Minuit 1951 p 24

« Ne pas vouloir dire, ne pas savoir ce qu’ont veut dire, ne pas vouloir ce qu’on croit qu’on veut dire, et toujours dire ou presque, voilà ce qu’il importe de ne pas perdre de vue dans la chaleur de le rédaction. »

S. Beckett Molloy  éd. de Minuit 1951 p 36

« And having heard, or more probably read somewhere, in the days when I thought I would be well advised to educate myself, or amuse myself, or stupefie myself, or kill time, that when a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping in this way to go in a straight line. For I stopped beeing half-witted and became sly, whenever I took the trouble. And my head was a storehouse of useful knowledge. And if I did not go in a rigorously straight line, with my system of going in a circle, at least I did not go in a circle, and that was something. »

S. Beckett Molloy Calder Publication Ltd