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Halldór Laxness
“He continued on, on to the glacier, towards the dawn, from ridge to ridge, in deep, new-fallen snow, paying no heed to the storms that might pursue him. As a child he had stood by the seashore at Ljósavík and watched the waves soughing in and out, but now he was heading away from the sea. "Think of me when you are in glorious sunshine." Soon the sun of the day of resurrection will shine on the bright paths where she awaits her poet.
And beauty shall reign alone.”
Halldór Laxness, World Light

Olaf Stapledon
“We should not for a moment consider even our best-established knowledge of existence as true. It is awareness only of the colors that our own vision paints on the film of one bubble in one strand of foam on the ocean of being.”
Olaf Stapledon

James  Jones
“If I never meet you
In this life
Let me feel the lack
A glance from your eyes
Then my life
Will be yours”
James Jones, The Thin Red Line

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