“And they are deformed though it does not show on the outside. I live only my dwarf life. I never go around tall and smooth-featured. I am ever myself, always the same, I live one life alone. I have no other being inside me. And I recognize everything within me, nothing ever comes up from my inner depths, nothing there… — Pär Lagerkvist Copy Share
“It is incomprehensible that he should want to have these futile people here, and still more incomprehensible that he should be able to sit… — Pär Lagerkvist Copy Share Image
“Bitter, too, to be forced to acknowledge in one's heart how little love has to do with kindness.” — Pär Lagerkvist Copy Share Image
“-No, the man said, looking past him with his empty gaze, the realm of the dead isn't anything. But to those who have been… — Pär Lagerkvist Copy Share Image
“Eternity… It has nothing to do with life, I thought; it is the contrary to all life. It is something limitless, endless, a realm of… — Pär Lagerkvist Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more foreign than the world of one's childhood when one has truly left it.” — Pär Lagerkvist Copy Share Image
“Only the gods have many destinies and need never die. They are filled with everything and experience everything. Everything - except human happiness. That… — Pär Lagerkvist Copy Share Image
