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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“J'en sais ce que savent les mots et les choses mortes et ça fait une jolie petite somme, avec un commencement, un milieu et une fin, comme dans les phrases bien bâties et dans la longue sonate des cadavres.” Samuel Beckett, Molloy

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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.