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Knut Hamsun Quotes

1859–1952 Norway

Knut Hamsun (August 4, 1859 – February 19, 1952) was a Norwegian author and Nobel laureate.

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And love became the world's origin and the world's ruler, yet littered its path is with flowers and blood, flowers and blood.

Victoria (1898)

Instead of founding an intellectual elite, America has established a mulatto studfarm.

In old age... we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

Wanderers (1909)

It was in those days when I wandered about hungry in Kristiania, that strange city which no one leaves before it has set its mark upon him. . . .

Hunger (1890)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Knut Hamsun (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.