Jens Bjorneboe Quotes

#1. If literature provides solutions, if it provides answers, then it is lying. Rooted in reality as it is, it can only contribute towards posing the questions more sharply and clearly and more drastically than before. In my opinion, creative literature is an empirical science.

Jens Bjorneboe

#2. They were handsome, proper and normal family fathers who built the concentration camps and whipped the prisoners to death. And who was Nietzsche? A narcotized syphilitic.

Jens Bjorneboe

#3. He who hasn't experienced a full depression alone and over a long period of time
he is a child.

Jens Bjorneboe

#4. All sailors are afraid of the sea. They know what it is.

Jens Bjorneboe

#5. It doesn't matter what you love,
it matters only that you love.

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#6. I am happy today - completely happy - because I died twenty years ago; furthermore I'm happy because I die daily. Every day, at eleven o' clock, I've died twice........After eleven o'clock I'm done with dying for that day.

Jens Bjorneboe