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No one is so busy that he hasn't the time to dismantle a work of art.
Halldór Laxness
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Halldór Laxness
Age: 85 †
Born: 1902
Born: April 23
Died: 1988
Died: February 8
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Reykjavíkurborg
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Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.
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Human beings, in point of fact, are lonely by nature, and one should feel sorry for them and love them and mourn with them. It is certain that people would understand one another better and love one another more if they would admit to one another how lonely they were, how sad they were in their tormented, anxious longings and feeble hopes.
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Of all the creatures that man kills for his amusement there is only one that he kills out of hatred—other men. Man hates nothing as much as himself. That is why war is called the leprosy of the human soul.
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Icelanders are grateful to meet foreigners who have heard of their country. And even more grateful to hear someone say it deserves better.
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You have fettered yourself of your own free will, man - break the fetters!
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A free man can live on fish.Independence is better than meat
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One boy's footprints are not long in being lost in the snow, in the steadily falling snow of the shortest day, the longest night they are lost as soon as they are made. And once again the heath is clothed in drifting white. And there is no ghost, save the one ghost that lives in the heart of a motherless boy, till his footprints disappear.
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Whoever doesn't live in poetry cannot survive here on earth.
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A wise man once said that next to losing its mother, there is nothing more healthy for a child than to lose its father.
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What you have stolen can never be yours.
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When a man has a flower in his life he builds a house.
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The tyranny of mankind it was like the obstinate drip of water falling on a stone and hollowing it little by little and this drip continued, falling obstinately, falling without pause on the souls of the children.
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