Knut Hamsun, Pan

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For I belong to the forests and solitude.

~Knut Hamsun

She scattered stars about her.

Knut Hamsun, Victoria (1898)

Knut Ekwall (Swedish, 1843–1912) • The Proposal • 1880-1889

“Love is every bit as violent and dangerous as murder.” ― Knut Hamsun

Jeg angrer ingenting av det jeg har gjort**

- Knut Hamsun

**I have no regrets what I have done

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

What is progress? That we can drive faster on the roads? No, progress is the rest the body needs and the peace the soul requires. Progress is man’s well being.

Knut Hamsun

More shelves in my new place.

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

'Akşamın alacakaranlığında ümitsiz yankılanan kendi sözlerim, dokundu bana; ağlamaya başladım. Rüzgar esiyor, gökte bulutlar hızla kayıp gidiyorlar, karanlık bastıkça serinlik artıyordu. Cadde boyunca hem yürüdüm, hem ağladım; kendime gittikçe daha çok acıyordum; defalarca tekrarladığım birkaç kelime, bir feryat, diner gibi oldukça gözyaşlarımı tekrardan akıtıyordu; "Rabbim, Allah'ım ne kadar bedbahtım! Rabbim, Allah'ım ne kadar bedbahtım!"'

Photography by Hales

For I belong to the forests and solitude.

~Knut Hamsun

Good god, if you only knew how I have loved you!

Knut Hamsun, Victoria (1898)

"Besides, beyond question, it takes a certain degree of brainlessness to remain permanently contented with oneself and with everything." — Knut Hamsun ( The Wanderer )