Karl Ove Knausgard Quotes
Shame tells you when you've gone too far. Then you try if it's okay to go too far. And it might be so that shame was right. You can never, never know that.
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The sun never sets on my gallery.
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I've never seen anyone die. It's hard to imagine what it would be like.
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I do not often get lonely, and I never get bored.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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Love can never be fully explained.
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A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.
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I tend not to wear accessories. I'm not one of those gals with a drawerful of amazing jewelry. I don't even have my ears pierced! But I have one bracelet that never comes off my wrist.
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I'll never be like a Barbie girl, that's for sure.
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Before I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I'd be the chief minister.
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I hear a lot of 'Top Model' girls say they are dismissed by clients because they recognize them, but it never happened to me.
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It feels a little bit odd to me that you have some guys that have never lived in the United States that play for the United States because they were able to secure a passport. To me, that just feels like they weren't able to make it for their country and earn a living, so they're coming here.
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My family never owned a home. We leased.
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At times, our circumstances call for us to make critical choices to keep our covenants or to compromise them. Covenants should never be compromised, even when at the moment some circumstances might seem to justify it.
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I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.
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Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.
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The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
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The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
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I've been in the public eye now for about 15 or 16 years, and I'm very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it. It's not just something that will always be there. But I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.
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Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
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To be aware of others' accomplishments and the indebtedness we have to so many people is to appreciate and begin to respect all members of the human family.
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What do you think will happen in a forced marriage? With an uneducated man, an animal. What would I say, that I am already married? Why would I say it? I never accepted him as my husband in my heart or mind. How I spent a year and a half with him, only I know. And I only did it because of the child.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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Shame tells you when you've gone too far. Then you try if it's okay to go too far. And it might be so that shame was right. You can never, never know that.
