The Seducer Quotes

“..he was 'nuts about her', as the parlance of the day had it, as if it were generally recognised that love and madness are adjoining rooms with extremely porous walls.”
― Jan Kjærstad, The Seducer

“Jonas Wergeland's first stroke of genius, albeit unbeknownst to himself, was to choose a girl as his best friend. It was Nefertiti who taught him that women are, first and foremost, teachers then mistresses - and above all that when you come right down to it, the female is a very different and, more o the point, a much more fascinating creature than the male. ”
― Jan Kjærstad, The Seducer

“Fashion is an angel passing over, a glimpse of a wing in the air, then it is gone,”
― Jan Kjaerstad, The Seducer

“Fashion is an angel passing over, a glimpse”
― Jan Kjaerstad, The Seducer

“the average Norwegian does not regard avant-gardism in the arts as ‘incomprehensible’, but as a clear sign of immorality. As something decadent. I think this stems from the overweening Norwegian need to feel secure.”
― Jan Kjaerstad, The Seducer

“state that dwarfs its citizens so that they will become more docile instruments, even in order to do good, will find that no great thing can be accomplished with small men.”
― Jan Kjaerstad, The Seducer

“Timbuktu was not even there. Jonas was over the moon. He was travelling into a mist, an uncharted nebula. The cloud of sand reinforced his conviction that he was not visiting a town, but a word, a name which marked the limits of the real world.”
― Jan Kjaerstad, The Seducer