Knut Hamsun citáty
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Knut Hamsun
Datum narození:4. srpen 1859
Datum úmrtí:19. únor 1952
Další jména:Knud Peterson Hamsun
Citáty Knut Hamsun
„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.“
— Knut Hamsun
Pan: From Lieutenant Thomas Glahn's Papers
„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.“
— Knut Hamsun
Hunger
„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?“
— Knut Hamsun
Pan: From Lieutenant Thomas Glahn's Papers
„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...“
— Knut Hamsun
Hunger
„The other one he loved like a slave, like a madman and like a beggar. Why? Ask the dust on the road and the falling leaves, ask the mysterious God of life; for no one knows such things. She gave him nothing, no nothing did she give him and yet he thanked her. She said: Give me your peace and your reason! And he was only sorry she did not ask for his life.“
— Knut Hamsun
Pan: From Lieutenant Thomas Glahn's Papers
