“What would it profit us, after all, even from a purely practical viewpoint, if we stripped life of all poetry, all dreams,… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“Growth of the soil was something different, a thing to be procured at any cost; the only source, the origin of all.… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“Human beings push against each other and trample on each other; some sink exhausted to the ground and serve as a bridge… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
...I will exile my thoughts if they think of you again, and I will rip my lips out if they say your… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“This is a life you do not understand. Yes, your home is in the city, and you have furnished it with vanities,… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“Was it really right to look the way he did? His prominent nose was altogether too immodest for his humble position in… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
I can't even make up a rhyme about an umbrella, let alone death and life and eternal peace. — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“God help me, how Tolstoy sweats over drying up people's sources of life, of wild and joyful life, drying them up and… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
Heaven knows that there are plenty of opportunities in later life, too, for being carried away. What of it? We remain what… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
It is as well perhaps that this is not the first time I have been swept off my feet. In the days… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
The other one he loved like a slave, like a madman and like a beggar. Why? Ask the dust on the road… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
But now the world breaks in on us, the world is shocked, the world looks upon our idyll as madness. The world… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“Well, God be with you,’ she said as she finally left him. ’I’m sure He is,’ he replied. She gave a start. ’Are you… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“De sier hun er melle firti og femti, men hun er mindst seksti, ropte han, og er slikt menneskelig? Gå og vifte med næseborene… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation. — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“The ships whose masts I saw outlined against the sky looked, with their black hulls, like silent monsters that were raising their hackles and… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
And love became the world's origin and the world's ruler, yet littered its path is with flowers and blood, flowers and blood. — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
No, I don't admire the genius. But I admire and love the result of the genius's activity in the world, of which the great… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“Daniel var en mand som forstod adskillig, han hadde været ute for et og andet i livet, hadde mistet både sin farsgård og sin… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“I imagined I had discovered a new word. I rise up in bed and say, "It is not in the language; I have discovered… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“Poteten det var en ny frukt, det var intet mystisk ved den, intet religiøst, kvinnfolk og barn kunne være med og få den satt,… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
