„Snažil som sa chodiť v kruhu a dúfal som, že takto pôjdem rovno.“

— Samuel Barclay Beckett

Originál

I did my best to go in a circle, hoping in this way to go in a straight line.

Molloy (1951)
Kontext: 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 stupefy 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 being half-witted and became sly, whenever I took the trouble … 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.

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