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Knut Hamsun
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Date of death:
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"However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science."
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Knut Hamsun
Topic(s):
Great
"No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry – to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave."
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Knut Hamsun
Topic(s):
Work
"I have had much to learn from Sweden’s poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation."
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Knut Hamsun
Topic(s):
War
"You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content."
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Knut Hamsun
Topic(s):
Money
"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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Knut Hamsun
Topic(s):
Marriage
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