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A meaningful life - this is what we look for in art, in its smallest dewdrops as in its unleashing of the tempest. We are at peace when we have found it and uneasy when we have not.

~Bjornstjerne Bjornson

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The greater the burden a man takes upon his shoulders, the stronger he must be to carry it. No words are unmentionable, no action or horror beyond powers of description, if one is equal to them.

~Bjornstjerne Bjornson

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Nothing has ever moulded our conscience so strongly as our knowledge of what is good and what is evil.

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Shakespeare's plays were a great Teutonic Valhalla with brilliant sunshine at times and violent tempests at others. The world to him was a battlefield, but his sense of poetic justice, his sublime faith in life and its infinite resources, guided the battles.

~Bjornstjerne Bjornson

Topics: Battlefield Battles Brilliant Faith Great Guided Him His Infinite Justice Life Others Plays Poetic Resources Sense Shakespeare Sublime Sunshine Times Violent Were World

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There may be men who think they are attacking Christianity when they investigate the historical origin or the morality of some dogma; I do not think so. Honest investigation can result only in growth.

~Bjornstjerne Bjornson

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The writers who reject tendentiousness and purpose in their work are the very ones who display it in every word they write. I could draw countless examples from the history of literature to show that the more a writer clamours for spiritual freedom, the more tendentious his work is liable to be.

~Bjornstjerne Bjornson

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A people numerically large may attain to ways of thought and enterprise that no political censure can reduce to a minimum; but under narrower conditions, it may easily come about that the whole people will fall asleep.

~Bjornstjerne Bjornson

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Christianity, with or without its whole apparatus of dogma, will endure in its essence for thousands of years after us; there will always be spiritually-minded people who will be ennobled by it, and some made great.

~Bjornstjerne Bjornson

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I have friends among the Christians, whom I love, and never for a moment have I thought of attacking their Christianity.

~Bjornstjerne Bjornson

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Watch over your child, as it struggles for breath on the outermost verge of life, or see your wife follow the child to that outermost verge, beside herself for anxiety and sleeplessness, - then love will teach you that life comes first.

~Bjornstjerne Bjornson

Topics: Anxiety Beside Breath Child First Follow Herself Life Love Over See Struggles Teach Then Verge Watch Wife Will You Your Your Child

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Biography

Nationality: Norwegian

Type: Writer

Born: December 8th, 1832

Died: April 26th, 1910

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