“If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.”
The Colossus of Maroussi (1941)
“Watch wound and buried by the watchmaker, before he died, whose ruined works will one day speak of God, to the worms.”
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Samuel Beckett
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Molloy
Molloy (1951)
Context: My life, my life, now I speak of it as of something over, now as of a joke which still goes on, and it is neither, for at the same time it is over and it goes on, and is there any tense for that? Watch wound and buried by the watchmaker, before he died, whose ruined works will one day speak of God, to the worms.
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