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“Embi: And you're supposed to be so good at mending primuses, pastor Jón!
Pastor Jón: And correspondingly bad at Baroque art.
Embi: How do you know there are 133 pieces? Who has had time to dismantle this work of art so carefully? Or to count the bits?
Pastor Jón: No one is so busy that he hasn't the time to dismantle a work of art. Then scholars wake up and count the pieces. ”
― Under the Glacier
Pastor Jón: And correspondingly bad at Baroque art.
Embi: How do you know there are 133 pieces? Who has had time to dismantle this work of art so carefully? Or to count the bits?
Pastor Jón: No one is so busy that he hasn't the time to dismantle a work of art. Then scholars wake up and count the pieces. ”
― Under the Glacier
“A wise man once said that next to losing its mother, there is nothing more healthy for a child than to lose its father.”
― The Fish Can Sing
― The Fish Can Sing
“He did not know what to say in the face of such sorrow. He sat in silence by his sister's side in the spring verdure, which was too young; and the hidden strings in his breast began to quiver; and to sound.
This was the first time that he had ever looked into the labyrinth of the human soul.”
― Independent People
This was the first time that he had ever looked into the labyrinth of the human soul.”
― Independent People
“But sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and they open on nothing until, at last, we stumble unconsciously against the only one through which we can enter the kingdom we have sought in vain a hundred years - and it opens.”
― In Search of Lost Time
― In Search of Lost Time
“He continued on, on to the glacier, towards the dawn, from ridge to ridge, in deep, new-fallen snow, paying no heed to the storms that might pursue him. As a child he had stood by the seashore at Ljósavík and watched the waves soughing in and out, but now he was heading away from the sea. "Think of me when you are in glorious sunshine." Soon the sun of the day of resurrection will shine on the bright paths where she awaits her poet.
And beauty shall reign alone.”
― World Light
And beauty shall reign alone.”
― World Light
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