Quote by Knut Hamsun
However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so dist

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. – Knut Hamsun

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There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil ones coffee and fill ones pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it. – Knut Hamsun

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alone
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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. – Knut Hamsun

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Poetry
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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. – Knut Hamsun

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Art
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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. – Norman Douglas

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Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you. – Tom Hopkins

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Wisdom

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. – Socrates

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Wisdom

I didnt get where I am today by worryin about how Id feel tomorrow. – Ron White

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If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me! – George Macaulay Trevelyan

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