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Pär Lagerkvist

One for whom the pebble has value must be surrounded by treasures wherever he goes.

Pär Lagerkvist

Nothing is more foreign than the world of one’s childhood when one has truly left it.

childhood, growth, maturity

Pär Lagerkvist

Only the gods have many destinies and need never die. They are filled with everything and experience everything. Everything – except human happiness. That they can never know and therefore they grudge it to men. Nothing makes them so evil and cruel as that men should presume to be happy and forget them for the sake of their earthly happiness.

gods, literary, spiritual

Pär Lagerkvist

Only the gods have many destinies and need never die. They are filled with everything and experience everything. Everything – except human happiness. That they can never know and therefore they grudge it to men. Nothing makes them so evil and cruel as that men should presume to be happy and forget them for the sake of their earthly happiness.

gods, literary, spiritual