“To know nothing is nothing, not to want to know anything likewise, but to be beyond knowing anything, to know you are beyond knowing anything, that is when peace enters in, to the soul of the incurious seeker.”

—  Samuel Beckett , book Molloy

Molloy (1951)

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Irish novelist, playwright, and poet 1906–1989

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