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"Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so."
"It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way."
"Being a mum has made me a lot more responsible, it's not just me anymore. But it's also brought me the most joy ever!"
"The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so."
"I remember being shocked when I came out from under the focusing cloth after a minute or two being submerged within that, at the startling green color of those ferns."
"I'm such a video game fan that being able to do voices in video games is just fantastic."
"Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line."
"I feel it's important to show that one thing that you do doesn't define you as a human being. It doesn't mean there aren't ramifications or you shouldn't pay for that but its not who you are."
"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise."
Explore more quotes by Knut Hamsun
"In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived."
"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!"
"I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation."
"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."
"Today riches and honours have been lavished on me, but one gift has been lacking, the most important one of all, the only one that matters, the gift of youth."
"In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you."
"No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave."
"It is as well perhaps that this is not the first time I have been swept off my feet. In the days of my blessed youth there were such occasions; in what young person's life do they not occur?"
"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."
"No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation."
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