Karl Ove Knausgard Quotes
And it's a disquieting thought that not even the past is done with, even that continues to change, as if in reality there is only one time, for everything, one time for every purpose under heaven. One single second, one single landscape, in which what happens activates and deactivates what has already happened in endless chain reactions, like the processes that take place in the brain, perhaps, where cells suddenly bloom and die away, all according to the way the winds of consciousness are blowing.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you.
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The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.
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I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.
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The rise of the Internet and the camera phone have started to change what stories are accessible.
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The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.
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Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape - into time.
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Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
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Inactivity is the beginning of all vice.
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And it's a disquieting thought that not even the past is done with, even that continues to change, as if in reality there is only one time, for everything, one time for every purpose under heaven. One single second, one single landscape, in which what happens activates and deactivates what has already happened in endless chain reactions, like the processes that take place in the brain, perhaps, where cells suddenly bloom and die away, all according to the way the winds of consciousness are blowing.
