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Quotes by Swedish Authors
"It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!"
"In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors."
"Love means to realise that we are one with life. Real love means to realise that we are one with the other person, one with nature, and one with the trees, the stones, the earth and the blue sky. It means to realise that all of life is God."
"I'm pretty sure those're my balls you've found, I said to the man searching my pants. "You gonna count 'em out now? Because I'll save you the trouble. There's two."
"I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me."
"The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men."
"You don't find the concept of illicit love at all engaging?"The concept, maybe. But in literature? That's like ordering a glass of tap water at a bar."
"We need work as much as we need rest; the two complement each other, one drawing power and enjoyability from the other. Rest is sweet after work, and work enjoyable after a good rest."
"I wonder what will happen when you actually enjoy the pains that life gives us sometimes. You'll be above them."
"I think that by fearing death, you are actually fearing life because it is a part of life. People are born and people die."
"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."
"The days seem short, and time seems too little to do what you love."
"But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from."
"I am very proud to follow the rules of our company."
"There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me."
"We need a reform of the Security Council. It must be perceived as truly representative by all the 191 member states, to uphold the credibility and legitimacy of the UN as the main political arena."
"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."
"Love is what creates the freedom and relaxation to be who we really are."
"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."
"It is important to note that a transitional phase has to be uncomfortable for you to move on to the next stage, lest procrastination stymies you."
"And I remember that the editors wanted to have a witness to say that this was really the case, because it was a very sharp picture of the just the face, the head of the fetus inside the womb."
"A responsible person accepts the results of his choices, attributing blame or praise to himself; that is what makes you happy with the way you turned out."
"It is on the consciousness level of the heart that we begin to understand that we are not separated from life. We begin to understand that we are not small separate islands in a great ocean, but that life is one and that we all are small parts of the Whole. We begin to understand what is really important and meaningful in life. It is on the consciousness level of the heart that we begin to understand that life is about sharing, rather than hoarding. We begin to understand that life is about giving, rather than taking."
"My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries."
"That's what I fear: being subtracted from myself. Negation. Forced against my will to become a beast."
"Time changes things; rather, a person's action over the passage of time changes things."
"Life doesn't come with an eraser. Experiences leave their mark, for better or for worse. Anyone who tells you otherwise has never been hurt."
"We sometimes freeze the specimen with liquid nitrogen, which is extremely cold, you know. This is another technique we use now - but the specimens are not alive."
"I can't believe it. He is sporting a bona fide erection in the middle of class. All because of me.In history you learn about entire kingdoms crumbling into chaos because of a woman-or, in some cases, multiple women. I smile at Professor Delacroix, putting an extra bit of swing into my hips as I sashay out the door. I'm beginning to see just how easy it is to bring a man to his knees with a few flashes of bare skin, and the whispered promise of hot, sweaty sex."
"The joy of success outweighs whatever negativity you might get from failing a couple of times."
"A spiritual man is happy with the whole existence. He says "yes" to the whole existence."
"It is when our inner male and female sides meets within ourselves that a new spark of love, joy, and wholeness arises within ourselves."
"Who can claim to know you more than you know yourself? You have been with yourself all your life, after all."
"We always vilify what we don't understand."
"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."
"And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more."
"If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party."
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