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It's to me this evening something has to happen, to my body as in myth and metamorphosis, this old body to which nothing ever happened, or so little, which never met with anything, wished for anything, in its tarnished universe, except for the mirrors to shatter, the plane, the curved, the magnifying, the minifying, and to vanish in the havoc of its images.

Samuel Beckett#25

ChangeExistentialismSelfDesireStagnationTransformation

About this quote

What does it mean?
The author desires a radical transformation or destruction of his stagnant existence.
In plain terms
Something needs to happen to my unchanging body to break its stagnation.
What can you take from it?
Radical change is preferred over static existence.

Where it applies

  • personal crisis
  • desire for change
  • existential boredom

Putting it to work

  • seeking change
  • breaking routines

Questions to consider

  • Is stagnation worse than destruction?
  • What do you wish would happen to you?

Another view

It equates change only with destruction or myth.

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