Kristin Lavransdatter

by Sigrid Undset

“Ah, young child, you probably think there’s nothing else that entices in the world save sensual pleasure and wealth and power. I must tell you that these are small things that are found along the side of the road—but I, I have loved the roads themselves. It was not the small things of the world that I loved but the entire world.

Many a man is given what was intended for another, but no one is given another man’s fate.

ALL FIRES BURN out sooner or later.