Haven't you noticed that we women daydream infinitely less than you men? We can't anticipate pleasure in our imagination or keep suffering out our lives with some imaginary consolation.Whatever is,is.Imagintion! It's so paltry!Yes,when you've grown older,as I have,you occasionally make… — Jens Peter Jacobsen Copy Share Image
Haven't you noticed that we women daydream infinitely less than you men? We can't anticipate pleasure in our imagination or keep suffering out our… — Jens Peter Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“...he looked so strange and absentminded; quite obviously he had just been reading a book, one could tell that from the expression in his… — Jens Peter Jacobsen Copy Share Image
Love is like a diamond; for as a diamond is beautiful to look upon, so is love fair, but as the diamond is poison… — Jens Peter Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“Know ye not that there is here in this world a secret confraternity, which one might call the Company of Melancholiacs? That people there… — Jens Peter Jacobsen Copy Share Image
He was weary of himself, of cold ideas and brain dreams. Life a poem? Not when you went about forever poetizing about your own… — Jens Peter Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“And it all came to pass, all that she had hoped, but it did not fill her with rapture nor carry her away with… — Jens Peter Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“For he has faith enough, he feels, if he were really to delve into himself, faith enough to move mountains, but he cannot manage… — Jens Peter Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“Of what are you thinking now?" she asked. "I am thinking of myself." "That's just what I am doing." "Are you also thinking of… — Jens Peter Jacobsen Copy Share Image
Break the ice, or draw that which lives in the dimness out into the full light of speech - what happens is the same:… — Jens Peter Jacobsen Copy Share Image
For the first time his mind grasped the fact that when life has sentenced you to suffer, the sentence is neither a fancy nor… — Jens Peter Jacobsen Copy Share Image
