Samuel Beckett quote about knowledge from Molloy - All I know is what the words know, and the dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning, a middle and an end as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
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“ All I know is what the words know, and the dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning, a middle and an end as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead. ”
 Samuel Beckett, Molloy (1951). copy citation

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Author Samuel Beckett
Source Molloy
Topic knowledge words
Date 1951
Language English
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Note Translated by Patrick Bowles
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Samuel Beckett quote about knowledge from Molloy - All I know is what the words know, and the dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning, a middle and an end as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
Samuel Beckett quote about knowledge from Molloy - All I know is what the words know, and the dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning, a middle and an end as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.