It is as well perhaps that this is not the first time I have been swept off my feet. In the days of my blessed youth there were such occasions; in what young person's life do they not occur?
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Language must resound with all the harmonies of music. The writer must always, at all times, find the tremulous word which captures the thing and is able to draw a sob from my soul by its very rightness.Knut Hamsun
No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.
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A word can be transformed into a coulour, light, a smell it is the writer's task to use it in such a way that it serves, never fails, can never be ignored.
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In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.
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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 and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.
Knut Hamsun
For I mean to roam and think and make great irons red-hot.
Knut Hamsun
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