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Hjalmar Söderberg was a Swedish novelist known for his unique literary style and profound insights into social reality. His works often explore the relationship between individuals and society, as well as the revelation of the human inner world.

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Desire Human Nature Emotions

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“Inimene ihkab armastust, selle puudusel imetlust, selle puudusel kartust, selle puudusel põlgust ja halvakspanu. Ihkab teistes inimestes mis tahes tunnet tekitada. Hing pelgab tühjust ja püüab maksku mis maksab kontakti leida.”

Being Human

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“Mänsklighetens minne är bristfälligt och orättvist, och våra äldsta och största välgörare ha vi glömt.”

History Human Nature Memory

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“Men naturen har förlänat människan med den lyckliga förmågan att glömma. Annars skulle hon inte stå ut med livet”

Life Forgetting Livet

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“My loneliness I have borne about with me through the crowd as a snail his house. For some individuals solitude isn’t a circumstance they’ve tumbled into by chance, but a trait, of character.”

Loneliness Solitude Isolation Doctor Glas

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“Man vill bli älskad, i brist därpå beundrad, i brist därpå fruktad, i brist därpå avskydd och föraktad. Man vill ingiva människorna något slags känsla. Själen ryser för tomrummet och vill kontakt till vad pris som helst.”

Beautiful

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“-ty var människas handstil förändras oavbrutet, en liten smula vart år, kanske omärkligt för henne själv, men lika oundvikligt och säkert som ansiktet, hållningen, rörelserna, själen.”

Metaphor Handwriting

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“I’ve always been somewhat isolated. I’ve borne my isolation with me through the crowd as the snail bears its house. For some people isolation isn’t a circumstance in which they find themselves, it’s an innate characteristic. And through this act my isolation is likely to increase; no matter how it ends, whether badly or well, for me the “punishment” will be solitary confinement for life.”

Solitude Isolation

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“For youth, the moon is a promise of all those tremendous things which await it, for older people a memento that the promise was never kept, a reminder of all that broke and went to pieces... And what is moonshine? Secondhand sunshine. Diluted, counterfeit.”

Nostalgia Melancholy

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“There are people who have no talent for happiness and who know this with painful, implacable clarity. Such people don’t seek happiness, merely to bring some sort of form and style to their unhappiness.”

Happiness

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“He was strict and hard and had perfectly clear and definite ideas about duty, where the others were concerned. For oneself one can always find circumstances that alter cases”

Father Duty Duty And Attitude

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“Do not go to the bottom of things, or you will go to the bottom yourself.”

Bottom

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“We know so little about one another. We embrace a shadow and love a dream.”

Knows Littles Dream Shadow And Love Embrace

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“Nothing so reduces and drags down a human being as the consciousness of not being loved.”

Humans Human Beings Consciousness Drag Being Loved

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“People want to be loved; failing that admired; failing that feared; failing that hated and despised. They want to evoke some sort of sentiment. The soul shudders before oblivion and seeks connection at any price.”

People Want Soul Failing Connections Hated Sentiments Oblivion Evoke Despised

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“One wants to be loved, in lack thereof admired, in lack thereof feared, in lack thereof loathed and despised. One wants to instill some sort of emotion in people. The soul trembles before emptiness and desires contact at any price.”

People Want Soul Desire Emotion Contact Emptiness Despised Instill

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“Truth is like the sun, its value wholly depends upon our being at a correct distance away from it.”

Values Sun Depends Truth Is Distance

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About the Author

Born: July 2, 1869
Died: October 14, 1941
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 17

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