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"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."

Ingrid Bergman· b. 1915View quote →

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🇸🇪Bill Skarsgård

Entertainment

b. 1990

"I think hubris comes from insecurity. Confidence comes in a more rooted sense; part of being confident is being able to say, "I can be really shitty," and to accept that. But also not to crumble under it."

"Words of Wisdom An extended range of quotations from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg."

"How do you know when it's over?" "Maybe when you feel more in love with your memories than with the person standing in front of you."

"He went through life with his hands firmly shoved into his pockets. She danced."

"Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible — not to have run away."

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🇸🇪John Ajvide Lindqvist

Literature

b. 1968

"Real love is to offer your life at the feet of another."

"If you listen to a song on the radio you can definitely tell whose music it is. When you listen to my music you can tell it is Basshunter."

"Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder."

"There is an alarming increase of violence and harassment against gay people, something that is being legitimized by the regime as they brand homosexuality as something abnormal and dangerous to children."

"The artist and the poet have the facility for mistaking pure languor for meditative peace and strength. True meditation "rests" in swiftness."

"We cannot solve a crisis without treating it as a crisis. And if solutions within the system are so impossible to find, then maybe we should change the system itself?"

"Nobody can guarantee a company or a concept of eternal life, but no one can accuse me of not having tried to."

"Apartheid cannot be reformed. It has to be eliminated."

"time is not an illusion, but the flow of time is. So is change. In spacetime, the future exists and the past doesn’t disappear."

"I think I was more like the black sheep, maybe, that, I was someone that you could blame on, but we were actually agreed on, that we had to stop now, because we came to a point, when it doesn't feel good anymore."

"We are on average, moving towards four degrees warming this century. And we haven’t been in a four-degree warmer world for the past four million years. So it’s not as if it’s a place we know very well."

"Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth."

"If John Lennon's so smart then why is he dead?"

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🇸🇪Magnus Björnstjerna

Religion

1779–1847

"These truly sublime ideas cannot fail to convince us that the Vedas recognize only one God, who is Almighty, Infinite, Eternal, Self-existent, the Light and the Lord of the Universe."

"Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society."

"I have never thought that you could obtain the extremely clumpy, heterogeneous universe we have today, strongly affected by plasma processes, from the smooth, homogeneous one of the Big Bang, dominated by gravitation."

"I believe that religion should be totally separated from the state. That's not the way it is today, not even in Sweden."

"Browsing in books as lovers do, they were only being considerate, because their tenderness to each other made them tender towards others as well."

"We charismatics love to say we're going back to the Christianity of the Book of Acts. And at that time, there was only one Church."

"Economics is in high degree a pedagogical discipline, and an economist must be in close touch with popular psychology in order to know what ought to be said at any particular moment."

"The international press are trying to create some sort of hysteria around ABBA that doesn't exist. They are trying to make a myth out of us."

"Struggle is life, and a movement, that no longer wants to fight, is beaten."

"While few customer offerings have a life, all great products and services have a soul."

"The Story of San Michele at Google Books"

"You have to look beyond race because as a human being you have to experience the person from the inside first"

"A is a complete course of events in the system, seen from a user’s perspective."

"...Fatherland without freedom and merit is a large word with little meaning."

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🇸🇪Christian Wilhelm Blomstrand

"Mansplaining is a sexist term designed to silence men via gender shaming."

"I don't give guarantees. There are concrete offers from the Premier League, so let's see what happens"

"Women can do nothing that has permanence."

"But in the Middle Ages people were convinced there were witches. They looked for them and they certainly found them."

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Notable Quotes

"What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst."

— Stieg Larsson, b. 1954View →

"Real love is to offer your life at the feet of another."

— John Ajvide Lindqvist, b. 1968View →

"How do you know when it's over?" "Maybe when you feel more in love with your memories than with the person standing in front of you."

— Gunnar Ardelius, b. 1981View →

"She just smiled, said that she loved books more than anything, and started telling him excitedly what each of the ones in her lap was about. And Ove realised that he wanted to hear her talking about the things she loved for the rest of his life."

— Fredrik Backman, b. 1981View →

"I think hubris comes from insecurity. Confidence comes in a more rooted sense; part of being confident is being able to say, "I can be really shitty," and to accept that. But also not to crumble under it."

— Bill Skarsgård, b. 1990View →

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