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"I have noticed that sometimes I frighten people; what they really fear is themselves. They think it is I who scare them, but it is the dwarf within them, the ape-faced manlike being who sticks up his head from the depths of their souls." Pär Lagerkvist's richly philosophical novel The... read more
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“Love is something which dies and when dead it rots and becomes soil for a new love. Then the dead love continues its secret life in the living one, and thus in reality there is no death in love.”
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“Everything has a meaning of its own, all that happens and preoccupies mankind. But life itself can have no meaning. Otherwise it would not be.”
Dwarf
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I AM twenty-six inches tall, shapely and well proportioned, my head perhaps a trifle too large.
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- Pär Lagerkvist (Author)
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Original Language: Swedish
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Country: Sweden
Publication Date: 1944
ISBN: 9100569771
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Publisher: Add the publisher.
Country: Sweden
Publication Date: 1944
ISBN: 9100569771
Page Count: Add the page count.
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- Dewey: 839.7372
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