"Great men are excellent topics of conversation, but……" — Knut Hamsun
"Great men are excellent topics of conversation, but the superior man, the superior men, the masters, the universal spirits on horseback, have to stop and search their memories merely to know who these so-called great men might be. And so the great man is left with the crowd, the worthless majority...for his admirers."
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Knut Hamsun
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48 Quotes by Knut Hamsun
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Earth and sea merged, the sea tossed itself in the air in a fantastic dance, into the shapes of men…
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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…
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But now the world breaks in on us, the world is shocked, the world looks upon our idyll as madness.…
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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…
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In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind,…
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Heaven knows that there are plenty of opportunities in later life, too, for being carried away. What of it? We…
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Today riches and honours have been lavished on me, but one gift has been lacking, the most important one of…
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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,…
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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…
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I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what…
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I was sort of traumatized by girls in the third grade. Because there was a girl in my third grade…
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I'd rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a…
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Haters are just confused admirers.
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Fear your admirers! Learn in time to hear, understand, and love the cruel truth about yourselves!
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The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he…
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Like her friend and admirer Clarice Lispector, Hilda Hilst was a passionate explorer of the sacred and the profane, the…
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I have always reckoned myself among the greatest admirers of Mozart, and shall do so till the day of my…
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Many of my ardent admirers would be roundly shocked and disturbed if they realized that everything I believe is thoroughly…
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