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Min kamp 2 (Min kamp #2) QUOTES

Min kamp 2 (Min kamp #2) QUOTES

1 " Then I met Linda and the sun rose.
I can't find a better way to express it. The sun rose in my life. At first, as dawn breaking on the horizon, almost as if to say, this is where you have to look. Then came the first rays of sunshine, everything became clearer, lighter, more alive, and I became happier and happier, and then it hung in the sky of my life and shone and shone and shone. "

― Karl Ove Knausgård , Min kamp 2 (Min kamp #2)

2 " Det är en vacker stad. Men kall som is. Du kan leva ett helt liv här utan att få närkontakt med någon. Allt är planerat för att man ska slippa beröring med varandra. "

― Karl Ove Knausgård , Min kamp 2 (Min kamp #2)

3 " There was nothing left of my feelings for those I had just spent several hours with. The whole crowd of them could have burned in hell for all I cared. "

― Karl Ove Knausgård , Min kamp 2 (Min kamp #2)

4 " All my adult life I have kept a distance from other people, it has been my way of coping, because I become so incredibly close to others in my thoughts and feelings of course, they only have to look away dismissively for a storm to break inside me. "

― Karl Ove Knausgård , Min kamp 2 (Min kamp #2)

5 " I feel almost physically ill in the presence of boring people who consider themselves especially interesting and who blow their own trumpets. "

― Karl Ove Knausgård , Min kamp 2 (Min kamp #2)

6 " I have no problem with uninteresting or unoriginal people – they may have other, more important attributes, such as warmth, consideration, friendliness, a sense of humor or talents such as being able to make a conversation flow to generate an atmosphere of ease around them, or the ability to make a family function – but I feel almost physically ill in the presence of boring people who consider themselves especially interesting and who blow their own trumpets. "

― Karl Ove Knausgård , Min kamp 2 (Min kamp #2)

7 " How desperate do you have to be to start doing push-ups to solve your problems? "

― Karl Ove Knausgård , Min kamp 2 (Min kamp #2)

8 " The only genres I saw value in, which still conferred meaning, were diaries and essays, the types of literature that did not deal with narrative, that were not about anything, but just consisted of a voice, the voice of your own personality, a life, a face, a gaze you could meet. What is a work of art if not the gaze of another person? Not directed above us, nor beneath us, but at the same height as our own gaze. Art cannot be experienced collectively, nothing can, art is something you are alone with. You meet its gaze alone. "

― Karl Ove Knausgård , Min kamp 2 (Min kamp #2)

9 " What a stupid, fucking, idiotic country this was. All the young women drank water in such vast quantities that it was coming out of their ears, they thought it was "beneficial" and "healthy," but all it did was send the numbers of incontinent young people soaring. Children ate whole wheat pasta and whole wheat bread and all sorts of weird coarse-grained rice that their stomachs could not digest properly, but it didn't matter because it was "beneficial," it was "healthy," it was "wholesome." Oh, they were confusing food with the mind, they thought they could eat their way to being better human beings without understanding that food is one thing and the notions food evokes another. And if you said that, you were either a reactionary or just a Norwegian, in other words ten years behind the times. "

― Karl Ove Knausgård , Min kamp 2 (Min kamp #2)

10 " I, for my part, never looked forward to anything except the moment the office door closed behind me and I was alone and able to write. "

― Karl Ove Knausgård , Min kamp 2 (Min kamp #2)

11 " It is not the case that we are born equal and that the conditions of life make our lives unequal, it is the opposite, we are born unequal, and the conditions of life make our lives more equal. "

― Karl Ove Knausgård , Min kamp 2 (Min kamp #2)

12 " This state lasted for six months, for six months I was truly happy, truly at home in this world and in myself before slowly it began to lose its luster, and once more the world moved out of my reach. "

― Karl Ove Knausgård , Min kamp 2 (Min kamp #2)

13 " Everything that can be said with words can be contradicted with words, so what’s the point of dissertations, novels, literature? Or put another way: whatever we say is true we can also always say is untrue. It is a zero point and the place from which the zero value begins to spread. However, it is not a dead point, not for literature either, for literature is not just words, literature is what words evoke in the reader. It is this transcendence that validates literature, not the formal transcendence in itself, as many believe. "

― Karl Ove Knausgård , Min kamp 2 (Min kamp #2)

14 " I wandered beneath the sun-dappled shade from the trees, surrounded by the warm fragrances of the forest, thinking that I was in the middle of my life. Not life as an age, not halfway along life’s path, but in the middle of my existence. My heart trembled. "

― Karl Ove Knausgård , Min kamp 2 (Min kamp #2)

15 " I walked around Stockholm’s streets, modern and feminized, with a furious nineteenth-century man inside me. "

― Karl Ove Knausgård , Min kamp 2 (Min kamp #2)

16 " The general perception of writers’ lives is that they are exciting and desirable. But you generally spend most of your time cooking and cleaning. "

― Karl Ove Knausgård , Min kamp 2 (Min kamp #2)

17 " One’s self-image not only encompasses the person you are but also the person you wanted to be, could be or once had been. "

― Karl Ove Knausgård , Min kamp 2 (Min kamp #2)

18 " I stopped for a few seconds by the newspaper stand wondering whether to buy the two evening papers here, the two biggest publications. Reading them was like emptying a bag of trash over your head. "

― Karl Ove Knausgård , Min kamp 2 (Min kamp #2)

19 " At the age of forty the life you have lived so far, always pro tem, has for the first time become life itself, and this reappraisal swept away all dreams, destroyed all your notions that real life, the one that was meant to be, the great deeds you would perform, was somewhere else. When you were forty you realized it was all here, banal everyday life, fully formed, and it always would be unless you did something. Unless you took one last gamble. "

― Karl Ove Knausgård , Min kamp 2 (Min kamp #2)

20 " I have never understood the point of holidays, have never felt the need for them and have always just wanted to do more work. "

― Karl Ove Knausgård , Min kamp 2 (Min kamp #2)