Victoria
Knut Hamsun
Top 10 Best Quotes
“And love became the world's beginning and the world's ruler; but all its ways are full of flowers and blood, flowers and blood.”
“Love is God’s first word, the first thought that sailed through his mind. When he said: Let there by light! there was love. And he was well-pleased with what he had made, nor did he wish any of it unmade. And love was the world’s origin and the world’s ruler; but all its ways are filled with flowers and blood, flowers and blood.”
“If she only knew that all of his poems had been written to her and no one else, every single one, even the one to Night, even the one to the Spirit of the Swamp. But that was something she should never know.”
“What have you done to your eyes? They’re all red. Have you been crying?’ ‘No,’ he answers, laughing, ‘but I’ve been staring into my fairy tales, where the sun is very strong.”
“Asked what love is, some reply: It is only a wind whispering among the roses and dying away. But often it is an inviolable seal that endures for life, endures till death. God has fashioned it of many kinds and seen it endure or perish.”
“Yes," he answered, "it's a strain being witty at my age. I'm giving it up.”
“It's always the same story. Naturally one doesn't get the woman one should have had; but if by some damned freak of reason and justice it ever does happen, then of course she dies immediately after.”
“Alas, love turns the human heart into a mildewed garden, a lush and shameless garden in which grow mysterious, obscene toadstools.”
“ "But has anything happened to you? Your face is so strangely distorted." "No, I'm smiling," he said. "This is going to be my way of smiling. I want this grimace to be my hallmark.”
“Love was God's first word, the first thought that sailed across his mind. He said, Let there be light, and there was love.”
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