More quotes by Halldór Laxness
Yes, it is a painful lot to be a poet and to love both God and man by the farthest northern seas!
Flowers are immortal. You cut them in autumn and they grow again in spring—somewhere.
Although grace comes from above, that is not to say that everyone has the ability to accept to it.
It's an old saying that one still has to know something, despite everything.
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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!
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