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There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

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In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

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I have gone to the forest.

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When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.

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Heaven knows that there are plenty of opportunities in later life, too, for being carried away. What of it? We remain what we are and, no doubt, it is all very good for us!

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No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.

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You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content.

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For I mean to roam and think and make great irons red-hot.

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However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science.

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I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation.

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Biography

Nationality: Norwegian

Type: Author

Born: August 4th, 1859

Died: February 19th, 1952

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