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When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.


Knut Hamsun

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KIM STEADMAN No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY No man chooses evil because it is evil; he just mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Man blames fate for other accidents, but feels personally responsible when he makes a hole in one
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KNUT HAMSUN No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious ...
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KNUT HAMSUN For I mean to roam and think and make great irons red-hot.
KNUT HAMSUN The intelligent poor individual was a much finer observer than the intelligent rich one. The poor in...
KNUT HAMSUN The writer must be able to revel and roll in the abundance of words; he must know not only the direc...
KNUT HAMSUN ...I will exile my thoughts if they think of you again, and I will rip my lips out if they say your ...
KNUT HAMSUN Takva je ljubav.
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KNUT HAMSUN -ingen Penge mere og kan ikke arbejde, blaut, Far, udsuget, Fan danse mig.
KNUT HAMSUN Se nu er jeg borte fra byens larm og
trængsel og aviser og mennesker, jeg er
flygtet fra ...
KNUT HAMSUN Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum ...
KNUT HAMSUN Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity.
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C.S. LEWIS When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him...
C.S. LEWIS When man decides to vent evil,he anaesthetizes the stumbling block which is his conscience.
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GENE KEADY In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.
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DANNY AIELLO A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
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ZEEV FACTOR It really hurts when you get some questionable calls down the stretch.
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DEYTH BANGER War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.
TED NUGENT When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone.
THOMAS SCOTT When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone
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