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One Quotes by Knut Hamsun
- There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and…
- Today riches and honours have been lavished on me, but one gift has been lacking, the most important one of all, the only one that…
- No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one…
- What if one were up there, drifting about among suns and feeling the tails of comets fan one's forehead! How small the earth was and…
- Rather than admire the mediocre great men over whom passersby nudge each other in awe, I venerate the young, unknown geniuses who die in their…
- A few days back someone sent me two feathers. Two bird's feathers in a sheet of note-paper with a coronet, and fastened with a seal.…
- The heavy red roses smoldering in the foggy morning, blood-colored and uninhibited, made me greedy, and tempted me powerfully to steal one--I asked the prices…
- An increasing number of people who lead mental lives of great intensity, people who are sensitive by nature, notice the steadily more frequent appearance in…
- The intelligent poor individual was a much finer observer than the intelligent rich one. The poor individual looks around him at every step, listens suspiciously…
- The other one he loved like a slave, like a madman and like a beggar. Why? Ask the dust on the road and the falling…
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