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For 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.

For 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
Knowing, Soul, Want
Samuel Beckett (2007). “Molloy”, p.66, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

I have always been amazed at my contemporaries’ lack of finesse, I whose soul writhed from morning to night, in the mere quest of itself.

Samuel Beckett
Morning, Night, Soul
Samuel Beckett (1995). “The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989”, p.48, Grove Press

I don't know why I told this story. I could just as well have told another. Perhaps some other time I'll be able to tell another. Living souls, you will see how alike they are.

Samuel Beckett
Soul, Stories, Able
Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.226, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

What is this love that more than all the cursed deadly or any other of its great movers so moves the soul and soul what is this soul that more than by any of its great movers is by love so moved?

Samuel Beckett
Love, Moving, Soul
Samuel Beckett (2012). “All That Fall and Other Plays for Radio and Screen”, p.92, Faber & Faber

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