“He wants to accomplish something in life, learn languages, see the world, read a thousand books, he wants to discover whether there is any core, but sometimes it's hard to think and read when one is stiff and sore after a difficult fishing voyage, wet and cold after twelve hours' working in the meadows, when his thoughts can be so heavy that he can hardly lift them, then it's a long way to the core.”
― Himnaríki og helvíti
― Himnaríki og helvíti
“The hours are numerous and the clock seldom measures the time that passes inside us, the real lifetime, and because of this many days can fit into a few hours, and vice versa, and numbers of years can be an imprecise measure of a man's lifetime, he who dies at forty has perhaps actually lived much longer than he who dies at ninety.”
― Himnaríki og helvíti
― Himnaríki og helvíti
“Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep—it can't be done abruptly.”
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“After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy.”
― The Museum of Innocence
― The Museum of Innocence
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