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  • #1
    Knut Hamsun
    “...I will exile my thoughts if they think of you again, and I will rip my lips out if they say your name once more. Now if you do exist, I will tell you my final word in life or in death, I tell you goodbye.”
    Knut Hamsun, Hunger

  • #2
    Knut Hamsun
    “I love three things, I then say. I love a dream of love I once had, I love you, and I love this patch of earth.

    And which do you love best?

    The dream.”
    Knut Hamsun, Pan

  • #3
    Knut Hamsun
    “But things worked out. Everything works out. Though sometimes they work out sideways.”
    Knut Hamsun, Ringen sluttet

  • #4
    Knut Hamsun
    “Love is every bit as violent and dangerous as murder.”
    Knut Hamsun

  • #5
    Knut Hamsun
    “There are some people who cannot help giving. Why? Because they experience a real psychological pleasure in doing so. They don't do it with an eye to their own advantage, they do it on the quiet; they detest doing it openly because that would take away some of the satisfaction. They do it in secret, with quick trembling hands, their breasts rocked by a spiritual well being which they do not themselves understand.”
    Knut Hamsun, Mysteries

  • #6
    Knut Hamsun
    “But now it was spring again, and spring was almost unbearable for sensitive hearts. It drove creation to its utmost limits, it wafted its spice-laden breath even into the nostrils of the innocent.”
    Knut Hamsun, Dreamers

  • #7
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    Albert Camus

  • #8
    Albert Camus
    “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
    Albert Camus

  • #9
    Albert Camus
    “You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”
    Albert Camus, The Fall

  • #10
    Albert Camus
    “I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.”
    Albert Camus, The Fall

  • #11
    Albert Camus
    “O light! This is the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.”
    Albert Camus, L’été

  • #12
    Albert Camus
    “I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.”
    Albert Camus, The Stranger

  • #13
    Albert Camus
    “Nothing in life is worth,
    turning your back on,
    if you love it.”
    Albert Camus

  • #14
    Albert Camus
    “The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.”
    Albert Camus, The Plague

  • #15
    Albert Camus
    “I love life - that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.”
    Albert Camus, The Fall

  • #16
    Albert Camus
    “I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.”
    Albert Camus

  • #17
    Albert Camus
    “I had the whole sky in my eyes and it was blue and gold.”
    Albert Camus

  • #18
    Albert Camus
    “Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.”
    Albert Camus, The Fall

  • #19
    Albert Camus
    “We're going forward, but nothing changes.”
    Albert Camus, The Fall

  • #20
    Albert Camus
    “Am well. Thinking of you always. Love”
    Albert Camus, The Plague

  • #21
    Albert Camus
    “Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.”
    Albert Camus, The Fall

  • #22
    Albert Camus
    “Well, personally, I've seen enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned that it can be murderous. What interests me is living and dying for what one loves.”
    Albert Camus, The Plague

  • #23
    Albert Camus
    “People don't love each other at our age, Marthe—they please each other, that's all. Later on, when you're old and impotent, you can love someone. At our age, you just think you do. That's all it is.”
    Albert Camus, A Happy Death

  • #24
    Albert Camus
    “There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.”
    Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942

  • #25
    Albert Camus
    “No doubt our love was still there, but quite simply it was unusable, heavy to carry, inert inside of us, sterile as crime or condemnation. It was no longer anything except a patience with no future and a stubborn wait.”
    Albert Camus, The Plague

  • #26
    George Orwell
    “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #27
    George Orwell
    “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #28
    George Orwell
    “War is peace.
    Freedom is slavery.
    Ignorance is strength.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #29
    George Orwell
    “The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #30
    George Orwell
    “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
    George Orwell, Animal Farm



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