Quote by Knut Hamsun
In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. W

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived. – Knut Hamsun

Other quotes by Knut Hamsun

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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In the digital age of overnight success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked. – James Dyson

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Age

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi. – Oprah Winfrey

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Age

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Age

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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Age

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I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. – Orson Welles

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Time

Honest to God, all my life I have had such a fear of spiders. In fact, I use to have a reoccurring dream about one. Very clearly, it was black with a red head. It would sit up in the corner of the bedroom and when it started getting closer, I would wake up in a panic. – Tippi Hedren

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Fear

Overcoming fear and worry can be accomplished by living a day at a time or even a moment at a time. Your worries will be cut down to nothing. – Dr. Robert Anthony

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Worry

Everythings got a moral, if only you can find it. – Lewis Carroll

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Morals