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

fraudulent blue ozone — Knut Hamsun

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Young hearts have their unfathomable depths. — Knut Hamsun

I have gone to the forest — Knut Hamsun

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

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

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

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

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

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