Sjon Quotes

#1. Fridrik sat many a night by a smoking lamp, translating into Danish descriptions of the latest methods of keeping us poor humans alive, while on pallets around him lay the corpses, beyond any aid, despite the encouraging news of advances in electrical cures.

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#2. I felt the heat of the animosity they bear towards me, the vindictive nature that drives a man to destroy his neighbour in a fire as if he were a banned book ... for what is the difference? Every book is imbued with the human spirit.

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#3. Balderdash, I say, let the sword turn into an adder and the adder a salmon and the salmon a birch twig and birch twig a sword and the sword a tongue ... Let it all run together so swiftly that it cannot be separated again ...

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#4. Light, more light!"
But the closer the priest came to his goal, the less man there was in him, the more beast.

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#5. Only those who have learnt the tongue of angels can tell how one's name will sound in the language of light.

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#6. I have seen the universe! It is made of poems!

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