Victoria

“And love became the world's beginning and the world's ruler; but all its ways are full of flowers and blood, flowers and blood.””

— Knut Hamsun

“Love is God’s first word, the first thought that sailed through his mind. When he said: Let there by light! there was love. And he was well-pleased with what he had made, nor did he wish any of it unmade. And love was the world’s origin and the world’s ruler; but all its ways are filled with flowers and blood, flowers and blood.””

— Knut Hamsun

“Og kjærligheten blev verdens ophav og verdens hersker, men alle dens veier er fulle av blomster og blod, blomster og blod.””

— Knut Hamsun

“If she only knew that all of his poems had been written to her and no one else, every single one, even the one to Night, even the one to the Spirit of the Swamp. But that was something she should never know.””

— Knut Hamsun

“Takva je ljubav.Ona može da uništi čoveka, i nanovo ga podigne i preporodi. Danas može da voli mene, sutra tebe, a već sutra uveče nekog stranca, toliko je nestalna. Ali može i da bude čvrsta kao nesalomljiv pečat, može neugasivo da plamti do samrtnog časa.””

— Knut Hamsun

“What have you done to your eyes? They’re all red. Have you been crying?’ ‘No,’ he answers, laughing, ‘but I’ve been staring into my fairy tales, where the sun is very strong.””

— Knut Hamsun

“Slik var kjærligheten.Den kunde ruinere sin mand, gjenreise ham og brændemeærke ham igjen; den kunde elske mig idag, dig imorgen og ham imorgen nat, så ubestandig var den. Men den kunde også holde fast som et ubrytelig segl og blusse like uutslukelig til dødens stund, for så evig var den.””

— Knut Hamsun

“Asked what love is, some reply: It is only a wind whispering among the roses and dying away. But often it is an inviolable seal that endures for life, endures till death. God has fashioned it of many kinds and seen it endure or perish.””

— Knut Hamsun

“It's always the same story. Naturally one doesn't get the woman one should have had; but if by some damned freak of reason and justice it ever does happen, then of course she dies immediately after.””

— Knut Hamsun