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Knut Hamsun quotes: I felt pleasantly empty, untouched by everything around me and happy to be unseen by all.

I felt pleasantly empty, untouched by everything around me and happy to be unseen by all.

Knut Hamsun quotes: fraudulent blue ozone

fraudulent blue ozone

Knut Hamsun quotes: 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?

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 quotes: In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

Knut Hamsun quotes: I can't even make up a rhyme about an umbrella, let alone death and life and eternal peace.

I can't even make up a rhyme about an umbrella, let alone death and life and eternal peace.

Knut Hamsun quotes: The whisper of the blood and the pleading of the bone marrow.

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

Knut Hamsun quotes: It was weather for dreams; for little fluttering quests of the heart.

It was weather for dreams; for little fluttering quests of the heart.

Knut Hamsun quotes: What power that girl wielded, though there was nothing striking or unusual about her - unless one considered her long braid and her common sense!

What power that girl wielded, though there was nothing striking or unusual about her - unless one considered her long braid and her common sense!

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

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

Knut Hamsun quotes: When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.

When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.

Knut Hamsun quotes: I see stars before my eyes, and my thoughts are swept up into a hurricane of light.

I see stars before my eyes, and my thoughts are swept up into a hurricane of light.

Knut Hamsun quotes: I was on the verge of crying with grief at still being alive.

I was on the verge of crying with grief at still being alive.

Knut Hamsun quotes: Well, bless my soul, what stupid creatures one has to mix with in this world!

Well, bless my soul, what stupid creatures one has to mix with in this world!

Knut Hamsun quotes: Summer is the time for dreaming, and then you have to stop. But some people go on dreaming all their lives, and cannot change.

Summer is the time for dreaming, and then you have to stop. But some people go on dreaming all their lives, and cannot change.

Knut Hamsun quotes: I would be beholden to no man, not even for a blanket.

I would be beholden to no man, not even for a blanket.

Knut Hamsun quotes: Love is every bit as violent and dangerous as murder.

Love is every bit as violent and dangerous as murder.

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

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 quotes: One must know and recognize not merely the direct but the secret power of the word.

One must know and recognize not merely the direct but the secret power of the word.

Knut Hamsun quotes: A shaft of sweetness shoots through me from top to toe when the sun rises; I shoulder my gun in silent exaltation.

A shaft of sweetness shoots through me from top to toe when the sun rises; I shoulder my gun in silent exaltation.

Knut Hamsun quotes: My heart understands all, and it no longer beats, it peals.

My heart understands all, and it no longer beats, it peals.

Knut Hamsun quotes: Oh, a woman can't tell one man from another; not always - not often.

Oh, a woman can't tell one man from another; not always - not often.

Knut Hamsun quotes: For I mean to roam and think and make great irons red-hot.

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

Knut Hamsun quotes: No matter how much I kept telling myself that I was behaving like an idiot, it was no use.

No matter how much I kept telling myself that I was behaving like an idiot, it was no use.

Knut Hamsun quotes: And love was creation's source,creation's ruler;but all love's ways are strewn with blossoms and blood, blossoms and blood.

And love was creation's source,creation's ruler;
but all love's ways are strewn with blossoms and blood, blossoms and blood.

Knut Hamsun quotes: But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe ...

But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe ...

Knut Hamsun quotes: Alas, love turns the human heart into a mildewed garden, a lush and shameless garden in which grow mysterious, obscene toadstools.

Alas, love turns the human heart into a mildewed garden, a lush and shameless garden in which grow mysterious, obscene toadstools.

Knut Hamsun quotes: A swarm of tiny noxious animals had bored a way into my inner man and hollowed me out.

A swarm of tiny noxious animals had bored a way into my inner man and hollowed me out.

Knut Hamsun quotes: Never stand around saying 'Poor thing' and being pitifulwhen things are being killed. It makes them tough and harder to kill.Remember that!

Never stand around saying 'Poor thing' and being pitiful
when things are being killed. It makes them tough and harder to kill.
Remember that!

Knut Hamsun quotes: Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity.

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

Knut Hamsun quotes: But things worked out. Everything works out. Though sometimes they work out sideways.

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

Knut Hamsun quotes: Young hearts have their unfathomable depths.

Young hearts have their unfathomable depths.

Knut Hamsun quotes: I have gone to the forest

I have gone to the forest

Knut Hamsun quotes: It was not my intention to collapse; no, I would die standing.

It was not my intention to collapse; no, I would die standing.

Knut Hamsun quotes: And love became the world's beginning and the world's ruler; but all its ways are full of flowers and blood, flowers and blood.

And love became the world's beginning and the world's ruler; but all its ways are full of flowers and blood, flowers and blood.

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

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

Knut Hamsun quotes: 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 thoughts could reach.

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 thoughts could reach.

Knut Hamsun quotes: Light dresses, blue eyes, the tinkling of glasses, the sea, the white sails. We sang snatches of song. And our cheeks became rosy.

Light dresses, blue eyes, the tinkling of glasses, the sea, the white sails. We sang snatches of song. And our cheeks became rosy.

Knut Hamsun quotes: Small jerks began to appear in my legs, my walk became unsteady precisely because I wanted it to be smooth.

Small jerks began to appear in my legs, my walk became unsteady precisely because I wanted it to be smooth.