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> [“The fantastic in literature doesn't exist as a challenge to what is probable, but only there where it can be increased to a challenge of reason itself: the fantastic in literature consists, when all has been said, essentially in showing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lars-gustafsson/the-fantastic-in-literature-doesn-t-exist-as-a-challenge-to-what-is/)

[Lars Gustafsson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lars-gustafsson/)

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## More by Lars Gustafsson

> [“This white hot pain, naturally, is basically nothing but a precise measure of the forces which hold this body together. It is a precise…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lars-gustafsson/this-white-hot-pain-naturally-is-basically-nothing-but-a-precise/)

[Lars Gustafsson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lars-gustafsson/)

> [“What is it that keeps us in motion? Not seldom, the fear that the bitterness of the past will catch up with us. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lars-gustafsson/what-is-it-that-keeps-us-in-motion-not-seldom-the-fear-that-the/)

[Lars Gustafsson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lars-gustafsson/)

> [“If we leave that general descriptive talk where everything which looks like a poem can be called a poem and turn instead to normative…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lars-gustafsson/if-we-leave-that-general-descriptive-talk-where-everything-which/)

[Lars Gustafsson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lars-gustafsson/)

> [“Deep within, every human being hoards a pitch-black riddle. The darkness of the iris is nothing other than the starless night, the darkness deep…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lars-gustafsson/deep-within-every-human-being-hoards-a-pitch-black-riddle-the/)

[Lars Gustafsson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lars-gustafsson/)

> [“The fantastic in literature doesn't exist as a challenge to what is probable, but only there where it can be increased to a challenge…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lars-gustafsson/the-fantastic-in-literature-doesn-t-exist-as-a-challenge-to-what-is/)

[Lars Gustafsson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lars-gustafsson/)

> [“He stood quite still, freezing, and somebody somewhere owed him infinite love.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lars-gustafsson/he-stood-quite-still-freezing-and-somebody-somewhere-owed-him/)

[Lars Gustafsson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lars-gustafsson/)

> [“The usual heresy consists in denying the existence of a god who has created us. It is a much more interesting heresy to imagine…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lars-gustafsson/the-usual-heresy-consists-in-denying-the-existence-of-a-god-who-has/)

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