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Knut Hamsun has 51 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Earth and sea merged, the sea tossed itself in the air in a fantastic dance, into the shapes of men and horses…
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There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill…
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But now the world breaks in on us, the world is shocked, the world looks upon our idyll as madness. The world…
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I was conscious all the time that I was following mad whims without being able to do anything about it … .…
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Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt…
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In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you…
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Heaven knows that there are plenty of opportunities in later life, too, for being carried away. What of it? We remain what…
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Today riches and honours have been lavished on me, but one gift has been lacking, the most important one of all, the…
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I stood in the lee of an overhanging rock and thought of many things.
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When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.
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No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to…
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What if one were up there, drifting about among suns and feeling the tails of comets fan one's forehead! How small the…
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The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms…
— Robert Browning
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Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes…
— Elias Canetti
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The underlying sickness of human life is an unwillingness to look with open eyes at the condition of the world.
— Hu Shih
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Travel like Ghandi, with simple clothes, open eyes and an uncluttered mind.
— Rick Steves
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Dream your dreams with open eyes and make them come true.
— T.E. Lawrence
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A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at…
— Agnes Repplier
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Awareness is an inner quality of consciousness; it has nothing to do with closed or open eyes.
— Rajneesh
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If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery…
— Michel Leiris
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No one should deny the danger of the descent, but it can be risked. No one need risk it, but it is…
— Carl Jung
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LSD wanted to tell me something.... It gave me an inner joy, an open mindedness, a gratefulness, open eyes and an internal…
— Albert Hofmann
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Nobody with open eyes can any longer doubt that the danger to personal freedom comes chiefly from the left.
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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To philosophize with open eyes is to philosophize in the dark. Only the blind can look straight at the sun.
— Louis Althusser
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