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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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It's not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels…
— James Wolcott
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But we didn't, not in the moonlight, or by the phosphorescent lanterns of lightning bugs in your back yard, not beneath the…
— Stuart Dybek
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Rather than admire the mediocre great men over whom passersby nudge each other in awe, I venerate the young, unknown geniuses who…
— Knut Hamsun
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you're an insomniac, you tell yourself: there are profound truths revealed only to the insomniac by night like those phosphorescent minerals veined…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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Possibility, infinity, beauty -- none of those words were right. [...] What he really wanted to say was: have you felt this?…
— Haven Kimmel
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To harden the earth the rocks took charge: instantly they grew wings: the rocks that soared: the survivors flew up the lightning…
— Pablo Neruda
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Since we can produce all types of light by means of hot bodies, we can ascribe, to the radiation in thermal equilibrium…
— Wilhelm Wien
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