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Karl Ove Knausgård
“God’s kingdom was the moment.
The trees, the forest, the sea, the lily, the bird, all existed in the moment. To them, there was no such thing as future or past. Nor any fear or terror.
That was the first turning point. The second came when I read what followed. What happens to the bird does not concern it.
It was the most radical thought I had ever known. It would free me from all pain, all suffering. What happens to me does not concern me.”
Karl Ove Knausgård, The Morning Star

Cormac McCarthy
“The abyss of the past into which the world is falling. Everything vanishing as if it had never been. We would hardly wish to know ourselves again as we once were and yet we mourn the days.”
Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger

Cormac McCarthy
“But I will tell you Squire that having read even a few dozen books in common is a force more binding than blood.”
Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger

Karl Ove Knausgård
“All my adult life I have kept a distance from other people, it has been my way of coping, because I become so incredibly close to others in my thoughts and feelings of course, they only have to look away dismissively for a storm to break inside me.”
Karl Ove Knausgård, A Man in Love

“Yes. What I haven’t made sense of yet, I never will.’ ‘You’re more right than you know,’ he said. ‘But that’s something you won’t understand until you’re my age.’ ‘Understand what?’ ‘That we never get older, not really. It just looks that way. Inside, we’re still nineteen, all of us.”
Karl Ove Knausgaard, The Wolves of Eternity: A Novel

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