Knut Hamsun

"I have shed my last tear, cast my last doubt."

"The more one suffers, the more one feels alive"

"I myself am strange and unusual"

"A man can do nothing better in this world than to work"

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to preserve oneself, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny"

"The only thing that truly matters is what you think of yourself"

"I have planted my feet firmly in my own existence"

"Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived"

"The greatest happiness comes from complete freedom"

"Art is the only truth we possess"

"A writer should never be fully satisfied with what he has written"

"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of"

"I am more myself now than I have ever been"

"Solitude is the greatest teacher"

"In nature, there are no rewards or punishments, only consequences"

"The mind creates the world we inhabit"

"To be fully alive is to be in constant conflict"

"Beauty lies in imperfection and incompleteness"

"A man's worth is determined by what he creates"

"The pursuit of perfection is the pursuit of emptiness"

"All meaningful change begins within"

"Time is the only true measure of a life well-lived"

"Truth cannot be spoken, only experienced"

"The greatest courage is the courage to be yourself"

"Love is both the greatest pleasure and the deepest pain"

"Work ennobles the soul and sharpens the mind"

"Dreams are the only reality that matters"

"Peace is found not in the absence of struggle but within it"

"The imagination is more powerful than all the forces of the world"

"Kindness is the language the deaf can hear and the blind can see"