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It may well be that fighting is normal, like having something to eat. Peace, on the other hand, is a luxury (Halldor Laxness Quotes)
It is justice, not love, that will one day give life to the children of the future. The battle for justice is the one thing which gives human life rational meaning (Halldor Laxness Quotes)
You can take everything from me except the freedom to look up at the sky occasionally (Halldor Laxness Quotes)
A married man has only one duty towards his wife in order to make her happy, and that is to ensure that she is constantly pregnant, and with a child in her arms (Halldor Laxness Quotes)
Was all human endeavor then, even the beautiful of the world, of so little consequence compared with murder? (Halldor Laxness Quotes)
I don’t know how to lie. But I don’t know what truth is, either. I always try to speak the way I think will cause least trouble to God and men (Halldor Laxness Quotes)
It’s an honor to be beheaded. Even a little churl becomes a man by being beheaded (Halldor Laxness Quotes)
I came to you a crossbearer on a stretcher and an outcast from humanity, and I went from you a conqueror of life (Halldor Laxness Quotes)
Everyone always believes everything nasty of everyone else, and especially if it’s a lie (Halldor Laxness Quotes)
The love which demands nothing but beauty itself and lives in selfless worship... Is the love that no disappointment can ever conquer, perhaps not even death itself (if that existed) (Halldor Laxness Quotes)
Although grace comes from above, that is not to say that everyone has the ability to accept to it (Halldor Laxness Quotes)
People who like to display complicated technique in their verse are more given to pride themselves on their work than are those who write for their own solace (Halldor Laxness Quotes)
When has human fortune ever been regarded as something better than a crime, or been enjoyed in any other way than in secret, directly contrary to the laws of God and man? (Halldor Laxness Quotes)
Icelanders are grateful to meet foreigners who have heard of their country. And even more grateful to hear someone say it deserves better (Halldor Laxness Quotes)
When’s there ever been a decent saint who didn’t start out as a thief? (Halldor Laxness Quotes)
Yes, it is a painful lot to be a poet and to love both God and man by the farthest northern seas! (Halldor Laxness Quotes)
One of the first things I had been taught as a child was never to believe a single word that was written in newspapers (Halldor Laxness Quotes)
How much can one sacrifice for the sake of one’s pride? Everything, of course - if one is proud enough (Halldor Laxness Quotes)
In actual fact, no man is honest when sober; in actual fact, you cannot believe a single word that a sober man says. I wish I were drunk myself (Halldor Laxness Quotes)
I swear - swear - swear: by everything which is and has been sacred to this nation from the beginning: Iceland shall not be sold (Halldor Laxness Quotes)
How is one to have any respect for the world where nothing else matters except who can lie the most plausibly and steal the most? (Halldor Laxness Quotes)
It’s a common saying that the children of children are fortune’s favorites (Halldor Laxness Quotes)
He who weeps does not die; weeping is a sign of life; weep, and your life is worth something again (Halldor Laxness Quotes)