"No, I don't admire the genius. But I……" — Knut Hamsun
"No, I don't admire the genius. But I admire and love the result of the genius's activity in the world, of which the great man is only the poor necessary tool, only, so to speak, the paltry awl to bore with."
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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 don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
— Margaret Atwood
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
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Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
— Dave Barry
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
— Martha Beck
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
— Alan Bennett
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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
— Andrea Bocelli
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
— Edward de Bono
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment.…
— Jo Brand
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls…
— Bill Bryson
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