“What are you, life? Perhaps the answer is found in the question, the wonder that is implicit in it. Does the light of life dwindle and turn to darkness as soon as we stop wondering, stop questioning, and take life like every other commonplace thing?”
Quote by Jón Kalman Stefánsson
Book:Himnaríki og helvíti
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Himnaríki og helvíti
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