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"Molloy" Quotes

A man named Molloy embarks on a journey to find his mother but gets caught up in a series of absurd and philosophical misadventures.

Quotes

I am in my mother's room. It's I who live there now.

Samuel Beckett

identity

Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.

Samuel Beckett

illusionreality

It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.

Samuel Beckett

illusionreality

What a joy to know where one is, and where one will stay, without being there yet.

Samuel Beckett

contentmentanticipation

I say what I can.

Samuel Beckett

communication

I am not sure I have anything to say.

Samuel Beckett

uncertainty

I may not have said. I may not have spoken.

Samuel Beckett

doubt

A little later, a little further, a little higher. So long as I do not move, so long as I do not leave the road, it is something.

Samuel Beckett

progressperseverance

I am in a place where I am not, and I am not in a place where I am.

Samuel Beckett

confusiondisplacement

I am at the place I reached, and I am at the place I did not reach.

Samuel Beckett

ambiguityuncertainty