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Love is every bit as violent a...

Love is every bit as violent and dangerous as murder.

Knut Hamsun 63 quotes

But now it was spring again, a...

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

Do not forget, some give littl...

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 on...

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 im

Knut Hamsun 63 quotes

I was conscious all the time t...

I was conscious all the time that I was following mad whims without being able to do anything about it . Despite my alienation from myself at that moment, and even though I was nothing but a battleground for invisible forces, I was aware of every detail of what was going on around me.

Knut Hamsun 63 quotes

Were I more conversant with li...

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

In my solitude, many miles fro...

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

Heaven knows that there are pl...

Heaven knows that there are plenty of opportunities in later life, too, for being carried away. What of it? We remain what we are and, no doubt, it is all very good for us!

Knut Hamsun 63 quotes

You are welcome to your intell...

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

I have gone to the forest....

I have gone to the forest.

Knut Hamsun 63 quotes

I have had much to learn from ...

I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation.

Knut Hamsun 63 quotes

No worse fate can befall a you...

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

Knut Hamsun 63 quotes

A few days back someone sent m...

A few days back someone sent me two feathers. Two bird's feathers in a sheet of note-paper with a coronet, and fastened with a seal. Sent from a place a long way off; from one who need not have sent them back at all. That amused me too, those devilish green feathers.

Knut Hamsun 63 quotes

I suffered no pain, my hunger ...

I suffered no pain, my hunger had taken the edge off; instead I felt pleasantly empty, untouched by everything around me and happy to be unseen by all. I put my legs up on the bench and leaned back, the best way to feel the true well-being of seclusion. There wasn't a cloud in my mind, nor did I feel any discomfort, and I hadn't a single unfulfilled desire or craving as far as my thought could reach. I lay with open eyes in a state of utter absence from myself and felt deliciously out of it.

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

Language must resound with all...

Language must resound with all the harmonies of music. The writer must always, at all times, find the tremulous word which captures the thing and is able to draw a sob from my soul by its very rightness.

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A word can be transformed into...

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

I love three things,' I then ...

I love three things,' I then say. 'I love a dream of love I once had, I love you, and I love this patch of earth.' 'And which do you love best?' 'The dream.

Knut Hamsun 63 quotes

There was a rock in front of m...

There was a rock in front of my hut, a tall, gray rock. By its looks it seemed to be well-disposed toward me...

Knut Hamsun 63 quotes

Truth is neither ojectivity no...

Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity.

Knut Hamsun 63 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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