Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.
Immoral women do not exist”, said the organist. “That this only a superstition. On the other hand there exist women who sleep thirty times with one man, and women who sleep once with thirty men.
Life in Oseyri was lived in fish and consisted of fish, and human beings were a sort of abortion which Our Lord had made out of cooked fish and perhaps a handful of rotten potatoes and a drop of oatmeal gruel.
When a man has a flower in his life he builds a house.
For once the crofter was at a a rather loss for words, for to him nothing has ever been more completely unintelligible than the reasoning that is bred of tears.
Asta Sollilja slept on, her head in the corner, mouth open, chin up, and head back, with one hand under her ear and the other half-open on the coverlet as if she thought in her sleep that someone would come and lay happiness in her palm.
That blasted family could never look at a living thing without wanting to make a profit out of it, preferably by killing it.
The life of man is so short that ordinary people simply cannot afford to be born
A free man can live on fish.Independence is better than meat
People don’t have the imagination to understand politicians. People are too innocent