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There are some people who can...

There are some people who cannot help giving. Why? Because they experience a real psychological pleasure in doing so. They don't do it with an eye to their own advantage, they do it on the quiet; they detest doing it openly because that would take away some of the satisfaction. They do it in secret, with quick trembling hands, their breasts rocked by a spiritual well being which they do not themselves understand.

Knut Hamsun 63 quotes

A word can be transformed int...

A word can be transformed into a coulour, light, a smell; it is the writer's task to use it in such a way that it serves, never fails, can never be ignored.

Knut Hamsun 63 quotes

Do not forget, some give litt...

Do not forget, some give little, and it is much for them, others give all, and it costs them no effort; who then has given most?

Knut Hamsun 63 quotes

But now the world breaks in o...

But now the world breaks in on us, the world is shocked, the world looks upon our idyll as madness. The world maintains that no rational man or woman would have chosen this way of life - therefore, it is madness. Alone I confront them and tell them that nothing could be saner or truer! What do people really know about life? We fall in line, follow the pattern established by our mentors. Everything is based on assumptions; even time, space, motion, matter are nothing but supposition. The world has no new knowledge to impart; it merely accepts what is there.

Knut Hamsun 63 quotes

Earth and sea merged, the sea...

Earth and sea merged, the sea tossed itself in the air in a fantastic dance, into the shapes of men and horses and tattered banners. I stood in the lee of an overhanging rock and thought of many things.

Knut Hamsun 63 quotes

The other one he loved like a...

The other one he loved like a slave, like a madman and like a beggar. Why? Ask the dust on the road and the falling leaves, ask the mysterious God of life; for no one knows such things. She gave him nothing, no nothing did she give him and yet he thanked her. She said: Give me your peace and your reason! And he was only sorry she did not ask for his life.

Knut Hamsun 63 quotes

The whisper of the blood and ...

The whisper of the blood and the pleading of the bone marrow.

Knut Hamsun 63 quotes

The writer must be able to re...

The writer must be able to revel and roll in the abundance of words; he must know not only the direct but also the secret power of a word. There are overtones and undertones to a word, and lateral echoes, too.

Knut Hamsun 63 quotes

I stood in the lee of an over...

I stood in the lee of an overhanging rock and thought of many things.

Knut Hamsun 63 quotes

But things worked out. Everyt...

But things worked out. Everything works out. Though sometimes they work out sideways.

Knut Hamsun 63 quotes

Were I more conversant with l...

Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work.

Knut Hamsun 63 quotes

You are welcome to your intel...

You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content.

Knut Hamsun 63 quotes

No worse fate can befall a yo...

No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.

Knut Hamsun 63 quotes

No, what I should really like...

No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave.

Knut Hamsun 63 quotes

In my solitude, many miles fr...

In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you.

Knut Hamsun 63 quotes

Today riches and honours have...

Today riches and honours have been lavished on me, but one gift has been lacking, the most important one of all, the only one that matters, the gift of youth.

Knut Hamsun 63 quotes

For I mean to roam and think ...

For I mean to roam and think and make great irons red-hot.

Knut Hamsun 63 quotes

However, I must not indulge i...

However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science.

Knut Hamsun 63 quotes

But now it was spring again, ...

But now it was spring again, and spring was almost unbearable for sensitive hearts. It drove creation to its utmost limits, it wafted its spice-laden breath even into the nostrils of the innocent.

Knut Hamsun 63 quotes

It is as well perhaps that th...

It is as well perhaps that this is not the first time I have been swept off my feet. In the days of my blessed youth there were such occasions; in what young person's life do they not occur?

Knut Hamsun 63 quotes

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