Samuel Beckett - Endgame (1957)

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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that.... Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh, we laugh, with a will, in the beginning. But it's always the same thing. Yes, it's like the funny story we have heard too often, we still find it funny, but we don't laugh any more.

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Hamm: If I could sleep I might make love. I'd go into the woods. My eyes would see … the sky, the earth. I'd run, run, they wouldn't catch me.

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Nell: Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.
Nagg: Oh?
Nell: Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh, we laugh, with a will, in the beginning. But it's always the same thing. Yes, it's like the funny story we have heard too often, we still find it funny, but we don't laugh any more.

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Finished, it's finished, nearly finished, it must be nearly finished. Grain upon grain, one by one, and one day, suddenly, there's a heap, a little heap, the impossible heap. I can't be punished any more. I'll go now to my kitchen, ten feet by ten feet by ten feet, and wait for him to whistle me. Nice dimensions, nice proportions, I'll lean on the table, and look at the wall, and wait for him to whistle me.

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Hamm: Ah, the old questions, the old answers, there's nothing like them!

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Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?

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But we breathe, we change! We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom! Our ideals!

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I open the door of the cell and go. I am so bowed I only see my feet, if I open my eyes, and between my legs a little trail of black dust. I say to myself that the earth is extinguished, though I never saw it lit.

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Customer's Voice: In six days, do you hear me, in six days, God made the world…And you are not bloody well capable of making me a pair of trousers in three months!
Tailor's Voice: But my dear Sir, my dear Sir, look—at the world—and look—at my trousers.

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I love order. It's my dream. A world where all would be silent and still, and each thing in its last place, under the last dust.

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I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.

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

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Hamm: We're not beginning … to … to … mean something?
Clov: Mean something? You and I mean something?

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Clov: Do you believe in the life to come?
Hamm: Mine was always like that.

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Sometimes I wonder if I'm in my right mind. Then it passes off and I'm as intelligent as ever.

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