Samuel Beckett about knowledge (“Molloy”, 1951) - 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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Samuel Beckett about knowledge (“Molloy”, 1951) - 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 about knowledge (“Molloy”, 1951) - 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.