Best Quotes by Knut Hamsun (Top 10)

  1. I love three things," I then say. "I love a dream of love I once had, I love you, and I love this patch of earth." "And which do you love best?" "The dream.
  2. Do not forget, some give little, and it is much for them, others give all, and it costs them no effort; who then has given most?
  3. I suffered no pain, my hunger had taken the edge off; instead I felt pleasantly empty, untouched by everything around me and happy to be unseen by all. I put my legs up on the bench and leaned back, the best way to feel the true well-being of seclusion. There wasn't a cloud in my mind, nor did I feel any discomfort, and I hadn't a single unfulfilled desire or craving as far as my thought could reach. I lay with open eyes in a state of utter absence from myself and felt deliciously out of it.
  4. Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity.
  5. The intelligent poor individual was a much finer observer than the intelligent rich one. The poor individual looks around him at every step, listens suspiciously to every word he hears from the people he meets; thus, every step he takes presents a problem, a task, for his thoughts and feelings. He is alert and sensitive, he is experienced, his soul has been burned
  6. An increasing number of people who lead mental lives of great intensity, people who are sensitive by nature, notice the steadily more frequent appearance in them of mental states of great strangeness ... a wordless and irrational feeling of ecstasy; or a breath of psychic pain; a sense of being spoken to from afar, from the sky or the sea; an agonizingly developed sense of hearing which can cause one to wince at the murmuring of unseen atoms; an irrational staring into the heart of some closed kingdom suddenly and briefly revealed.
  7. But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe…
  8. But things worked out. Everything works out. Though sometimes they work out sideways.
  9. Love is every bit as violent and dangerous as murder.
  10. In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

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