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Halld�r Laxness
Iceland
23 Apr 1902 // 8 Feb 1998
Writer [Nobel Prize in Literature 1955]
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On History:
History is always entirely different to what has happened.
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On Possession:
What you have stolen can never be yours.
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On Poetry:
Whoever doesn't live in poetry cannot survive here on earth.
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On Lie:
Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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