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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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Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.
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The nightingales are singing near The Convent of the Sacred Heart, And sang within the bloody wood When Agamemnon cried aloud, And…
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Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
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I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
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Our CO2 mixes with everyone else's within a year, then hangs around for centuries like a shroud.
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Wear it Like a banner For the proud? Not like a shroud.
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Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed;…
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When we shrink from the sight of something, when we shroud it in euphemism, that is usually a sign of inner conflict,…
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No matter how deep and dark your pit, how dank your shroud, their heads are heroically unbloody and unbowed.
— Ogden Nash
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Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harm Nor question much That subtle wreath of hair, which crowns my arm; The…
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