What if one were up there, drifting about among suns and feeling the tails of comets fan one's forehead! How small the earth was and how puny the people; a Norway of two million provincial souls and a mortgage bank to help feed them! What was life worth at such a rate? You elbowed yourself ahead in the sweat of your face for a few mortal years, only to perish all the same, all the same!
Knut HamsunDo 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 HamsunNo worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.
Knut HamsunWere I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work
Knut Hamsun