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

— Knut Hamsun Wanderers (1909)

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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.

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

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. . . .

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