Halldór Laxness Quotes

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• Whoever doesn't live in poetry cannot survive here on earth.
• When a man has a flower in his life he builds a house.
• A wise man once said that next to losing its mother, there is nothing more healthy for a child than to lose its father.
• My motto is strong packaging, clear addressing.
• A free man can live on fish.Independence is better than meat
• Where the glacier meets the sky, the land ceases to be earthly, and the earth becomes one with the heavens; no sorrows live there anymore,…
• It's a pity we don't whistle at one another, like birds. Words are misleading.
• It's an old saying that one still has to know something, despite everything.
• Of all the creatures that man kills for his amusement there is only one that he kills out of hatred—other men. Man hates nothing as…
• Don't forget that few people are likely to tell more than a small part of the truth: no one tells much of the truth, let…
• Bjartur declared that he had never denied that there was much that was strange in nature. "I consider that there's nothing wrong in believing in…
• The tyranny of mankind; it was like the obstinate drip of water falling on a stone and hollowing it little by little; and this drip…
• He continued on, on to the glacier, towards the dawn, from ridge to ridge, in deep, new-fallen snow, paying no heed to the storms that…
• This was the first time that he has ever looked into the labyrinth of the human soul. He was very far from understanding what he…
• Like all great rationalists you believed in things that were twice as incredible as theology.
• What you have stolen can never be yours.
• One boy's footprints are not long in being lost in the snow, in the steadily falling snow of the shortest day, the longest night; they…
• Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.
• Human beings, in point of fact, are lonely by nature, and one should feel sorry for them and love them and mourn with them. It…
• For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him.

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