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One of the first things I had been taught as a child was never to believe a single word that was written in newspapers.

— Halldór Laxness Atómstöðin (The Atom Station) (1948)

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Yes, it is a painful lot to be a poet and to love both God and man by the farthest northern seas!

Heimsljós (World Light) (1940)

Flowers are immortal. You cut them in autumn and they grow again in spring—somewhere.

Atómstöðin (The Atom Station) (1948)

Although grace comes from above, that is not to say that everyone has the ability to accept to it.

Heimsljós (World Light) (1940)

It's an old saying that one still has to know something, despite everything.

Kristnihald undir Jökli (Under the Glacier/Christianity at Glacier) (1968)

I don't know how to lie. But I don't know what truth is, either. I always try to speak the way I think will cause least trouble to God and men.

Heimsljós (World Light) (1940)

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