Erlend Loe Quotes

#1. I have enough trouble with useful information, never mind being burdened with what is useless.

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#2. I had been wading up to my neck in all this niceness for years. I woke up to it, went to sleep in it. I breathed niceness and slowly it was killing me.

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#3. We're born alone and we die alone. It's just a question of getting used to both of them.

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#4. There are too many confusing things present. Things I know. Thoughts I have. Sarcasm. Things I think I ought to be doing and places I ought to be going. Always other places.

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#5. It was so nice and uncomplicated. When I wasn't sleeping I ran around and was excited. I never walked. I ran.

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#6. Rome, yes, I say, thinking in quick succession of the Pantheon, the Colosseum and the cardinals screwing around while wondering whether women have souls or not, and of Nero, of course, who killed his closest family and let the city burn. I don't reckon he liked people, either.

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#7. I'm saying it's strange when you meet someone. That it's a new planet.

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#8. I know a helluva lot.
I'm not the only one who knows these things.
Many people know more than I do. That's fortunately not my problem.
My problem is what I am supposed to use it for.
What do I do with it?
It's confusing.

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#9. What's hectic about all this is the thought that I haven't asked to be here. I am just here. So is everybody else. We are all here. But we haven't asked to be. It's not our fault.

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#10. I don't think I am any different from other people. I have the same dreams. I want a family. I want a house. A car. Why shouldn't I want that? Everybody does. And when I have it, I want it all to work.

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#11. It's dark and it's cold and I stoke the fire like a madman to keep warm. One

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#12. When the universe is ephemeral, one can easily feel that human existence is meaningless. Why should I do anything at all?
On the other hand it is tempting to try and make the best of it. I'm here, anyway. The imagination won't cope if I try to picture where I'd otherwise be.

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#13. I have the strangest thoughts in my head, maybe I should not write them down.

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#14. I think I'm more concerned with things that are very big and things that are very small than with all the stuff in between.

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#15. Everything which is human is alien to me.

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#16. I feel alone, I've always felt alone and I push everyone away because I'm a prat like everyone else, and no one knows me and I fear no on one will ever know men for as long as I live, and I give up and in the end I just shout shit, shit, shit until I lose my voice.

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#17. I feel I am on a high. For the first time in a very long while I have a feeling that anything can happen. This morning I woke up thinking everything could happen, that things would just come to me, and that they would be good.

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#18. Elevators are brilliant. I'm going to stand here a little longer. The good thing about riding in an elevator as a grown-up is that nobody questions my being in the elevator. Nobody suspects me of just riding the elevator. I look like I'm one of the others.

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#19. I don't want all that much. But I want to be fine. I want to live a simple life with many good moments and a lot of fun.

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#20. I still don't know if things fit together, or if everything will be all right in the end. But I believe that something means something. I believe in cleansing the soul through fun and games. I also believe in love. And I have several good friends, and just one bad one.

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#21. I sat there thinking this had to be the pits. I was afraid that I had become fed up with life, that I would never ever feel enthusiasm again.

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#22. ... I don't wish to meet people. They disgust me. Increasingly so. But I must have milk.

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#23. Something is going to have to happen. Not necessarily something big. Just something.

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#24. Everything seemed meaningless to me. All of a sudden. My own life, the lives of others, of animals of plants, the whole world. It no longer fitted together.

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#25. The only question that really counts, must be thins one: are things getting better or are they getting worse?

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#26. It's good for me to see so many other people who are not me. That there are so many others. I feel affection for them. Most of them are doing the best they can. I am also doing the best I can.

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