“But now it was spring again, and spring was almost unbearable for sensitive hearts. It drove creation to its utmost limits, it wafted its spice-laden breath even into the nostrils of the innocent.”

“That room was Rolandsens world. Rolandsen was not just irresponsibility and inebriation, he was also great thinker and inventor. There was a smell of acids that permeated the corridor and came to t...”

“They walked away from the sea, Rolandsen in the lead. He kept to the edge of the road, in the snow, to leave room for the others. He was wearing light, fashionable shoes, but seemed unperturbed; he...”

“If you have to convince someone that you are their soulmate then you didn't realize the thousand other guys applying for the job.”

“He was quite a Casanova, no doubt about it. He was in a very good mood today and stopped longer than usual. The girls could see he was gloriously drunk. ’Well, Ragna, why do you think I come here s...”

“What decides whether a man will become immortal, is not his character but his vitality. Nothing save intensity confers immortality. A man manifests himself more vividly, in proportion as he is stro...”

“They [his readers, whom he asks to be his friends] will find that I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of first introducing it into minds which wer...”

“I think of you only twice a day - when I am alone and when I am with someone else.”

“Yet I cant bring myself to derail from her nor can I reject what I feel in the most primitive parts of me: hope. Because thats what I feel with her, hope that the world can get better. Hope that a ...”

“A flirtatious soul misses the point of intimate trust relations.”