Flowers are immortal. You cut them in autumn and they grow again in spring—somewhere.
Quotes from Atómstöðin (The Atom Station) — Halldór Laxness
1902–1998 Iceland
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Atómstöðin (The Atom Station) (1948)
Atómstöðin (The Atom Station) (1948)
The reason a man talks is to hide his thoughts.
Atómstöðin (The Atom Station) (1948)
To explain God would be to have no God, my little one.
Atómstöðin (The Atom Station) (1948)
Atómstöðin (The Atom Station) (1948)
Dear darling Americans, Jesus let them come with the atom bomb quick.
Atómstöðin (The Atom Station) (1948)
Sell the country, bury bones. What else?
Atómstöðin (The Atom Station) (1948)
He who weeps does not die; weeping is a sign of life; weep, and your life is worth something again.
Atómstöðin (The Atom Station) (1948)
Atómstöðin (The Atom Station) (1948)
It's a common saying that the children of children are fortune's favorites.
Atómstöðin (The Atom Station) (1948)
Atómstöðin (The Atom Station) (1948)
All that you ask for, you shall have.
Atómstöðin (The Atom Station) (1948)
Suicide—masturbation multiplied by itself!
Atómstöðin (The Atom Station) (1948)
Dust, who is not dust? I am dust. But I am your Member of Parliament, nevertheless.
Atómstöðin (The Atom Station) (1948)
Atómstöðin (The Atom Station) (1948)
Atómstöðin (The Atom Station) (1948)
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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Halldór Laxness (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.