"The whisper of the blood and the pleading……" — Knut Hamsun
"The whisper of the blood and the pleading of the bone marrow."
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48 Quotes by Knut Hamsun
Knut Hamsun has 48 quotes on this site.
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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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The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's…
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Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in…
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The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.
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The Eucharistic sacrifice of the body and blood of Christ embraces in turn the mystery of our Lord's continuing passion…
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In morals, theosophy builds its teachings on the unity, seeing in each form the expression of a common life, and…
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The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron…
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Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade…
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But the love of adventure was in father's blood.
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I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.
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Everybody's always asking me about my blood pressure. They did an interview once where they hooked me up to a…
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