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Quotes by Swedish Authors

"Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong."

"Without such a Life, the Word as to the letter is dead."

"The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized."

"The act of exploring what the men are, and moreover the separation of the good from the evil, is visitation; and the good are then removed, and the evil are left behind."

"The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside."

"People don't act the way they do because of me. They just act out their own projection of reality, and so do I."

"The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization."

"To make mistakes is to live, because no one is born knowing everything."

"A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality."

"It is when life pushes you down that you learn to get up and go higher."

"Cinema has become a global economy, totally international."

"Those that know where they are going will not take any path they see in front of them, but they will take the one that goes in the direction they want."

"If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer."

"The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing."

"There are billions of people in the world, and each one of them has their own view of reality."

"What you do now will be in the past right after you do it."

"Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems."

"It takes a long time to make me beautiful, but it goes fast to make me ugly."

"I'm tired and nervous and I'm in America. Here you don't know that you live."


"Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say... that I have, of course."

"Kevin, as the whole cast is, just wonderful people and great people, and people who are attracted to this kind of material and accepting the idea of going to Newfoundland and knowing the kind of lack of amenities."

"People need to access Skype wirelessly, no matter where they are, and what happens is that we'll be taking advantage of the rollout of Internet everywhere - WiFi and WiMax in particular."

"There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media."

"Producers are not gamblers. They want a good return on their investment."

"We have 2 million users in the U.S. and about 13 million worldwide in more than 200 countries."

"The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others."

"Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view."
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