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“Human beings like to see themselves reflected in clouded mirrors.”
― Pär Lagerkvist, The Dwarf

“Nothing is so sure as the final oblivion.”
― Pär Lagerkvist, The Dwarf

“All human culture is but an attempt at something unattainable, something which far transcends our powers of realization. There it stands, mutilated, tragic as a torso. Is not the human spirit itself a torso?”
― Pär Lagerkvist, The Dwarf

“What would life be like if it were not futile? Futility is the foundation upon which it rests. On what other foundation could it have been based which would have held and never given way? A great idea can be undermined by another great idea and, in due course, be demolished by it. But futility is inaccessible, indestructible, immovable. It is a true foundation and that is why it has been chosen as such.”
― Pär Lagerkvist, The Dwarf

“In appearance he was well-bred amiability personified, but one cannot judge by people's faces. It is their bodies which show them as the kind of animals they are.”
― Pär Lagerkvist, The Dwarf