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One Quotes by Halldór Laxness
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- No one is so busy that he hasn't the time to dismantle a work of art.
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt