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Halldór Laxness
“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. ”
Halldór Laxness, Under the Glacier

Halldór Laxness
“A wise man once said that next to losing its mother, there is nothing more healthy for a child than to lose its father.”
Halldor Laxness, The Fish Can Sing

W.H. Auden
“Few people take an interest in Iceland, but in those few the interest is passionate.”
W H Auden

Percy Bysshe Shelley
“I met Murder on the way -
He had a mask like Castlereagh”
Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Masque of Anarchy: Written on Occasion of the Massacre at Manchester

Halldór Laxness
“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.”
Halldór Laxness, World Light

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