"There was a rock in front of my……" — Knut Hamsun
"There was a rock in front of my hut, a tall, gray rock. By its looks it seemed to be well-disposed toward me..."
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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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More Disposed Quotes
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Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries…
— Jane Austen
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If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has…
— Joseph Addison
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In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.
— Daniel Boone
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I can wear a baseball cap; I am entitled to wear a baseball cap. I am genetically pre-disposed to wear…
— Bill Bryson
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Liars are always most disposed to swear.
— Vittorio Alfieri
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None of the miracles with which ancient histories are filled, occurred under scientific conditions. Observation never once contradicted, teaches us…
— Ernest Renan
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As to my success here I cannot say much as yet: the Indians seem generally kind, and well-disposed towards me,…
— David Brainerd
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It seems that nature, which has so wisely disposed our bodily organs with a view to our happiness, has also…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new…
— Charles Lamb
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A person is disposed to an act of choice by an angel ... in two ways. Sometimes, a man's understanding…
— Thomas Aquinas
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We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the…
— Ignatius Loyola
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Ideological talk and phrase mongering about political liberties should be disposed with; all that is just mere chatter and phrase…
— Vladimir Lenin
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