Selma Lagerlof Quotes

#1. There isn't much that tastes better than praise from those who are wise and capable.

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#2. Strange, when you ask anyone's advice you see yourself what is right.

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#3. No one is able to enjoy such feast than the one who throws a party in his own mind.

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#4. The ways of Providence cannot be reasoned out by the finite mind ... I cannot fathom them, yet seeking to know them is the most satisfying thing in all the world.

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#5. For what is man's soul but a flame? It flickers in and around the body of a man as does the flame around the rough log.

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#6. Young horses who cannot bear the whip or spur find life hard. At every smart they start forward and rush to their destruction, and when the way is stony and difficult, they know no better expedient than to overturn the cart and gallop madly away.

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#7. I had become shy of life's bustle in my solitary retreat and was apprehensive at the thought of facing the world.

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#8. Women can do nothing that has permanence.

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#9. There is so much one would rather not believe until one has seen for oneself whether it is true.

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#10. What is so certain of victory as patience?

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#11. Anyone who has ever sat in a train as it rushes through a dark night will know that sometimes there are long minutes when the coaches slide smoothly along without so much as a shudder.

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#12. He who is sorrowful can force himself to smile, but he who is glad cannot weep.

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#13. A man may be outlawed for the sake of a fish net he has never seen.

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#14. There is so little that one can do for the dead!

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#15. It is a strange thing to come home. While yet on the journey, you cannot at all realize how strange it will be.

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#16. It is not a good omen to meet a lot of cats when one sets out on a journey, so the Lieutenant spat three times for each cat, as his mother had taught him to do ...

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#17. What would have become of me if no one had wanted to read my books? And don't forget all those who have written of me.

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#18. More die in flight than in battle.

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#19. Here, no mercy is shown. One hates one's fellow man to the glory of God.

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#20. There is always a third possibility, as long as you have the ability to find it.

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#21. For, so long as there are interesting books to read, it seems to me that neither I nor anyone else, for that matter, need be unhappy.

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#22. Never repeat a rumor before you have verified it. And if it is true, hold your tongue all the more.

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#23. It is often the case with the silent children about us, that they cherish a dream which they dare not talk about.

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#24. I thought of my father and felt a deep sorrow that he should no longer be alive, and that I could not go to him and tell him that I had been awarded the Nobel Prize. I knew that no one would have been happier than he to hear this.

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#25. Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.

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