"It's a pity we don't whistle at one……" — HalldÃ³r Laxness

"It's a pity we don't whistle at one another, like birds. Words are misleading."

21 Quotes by HalldÃ³r Laxness

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Whoever doesn't live in poetry cannot survive here on earth.
When a man has a flower in his life he builds a house.
A wise man once said that next to losing its mother, there is nothing more healthy for a child than…
My motto is strong packaging, clear addressing.
A free man can live on fish.Independence is better than meat
Where the glacier meets the sky, the land ceases to be earthly, and the earth becomes one with the heavens;…
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…
Don't forget that few people are likely to tell more than a small part of the truth: no one tells…
Bjartur declared that he had never denied that there was much that was strange in nature. "I consider that there's…
The tyranny of mankind; it was like the obstinate drip of water falling on a stone and hollowing it little…
He continued on, on to the glacier, towards the dawn, from ridge to ridge, in deep, new-fallen snow, paying no…

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