"Where the glacier meets the sky, the land ceases to be earthly, and the earth becomes one with the heavens; no sorrows live there anymore, and therefore joy is not necessary; beauty alone reigns there, beyond all demands."

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Source : "World Light" by Halldór Laxness, translated by Magnus Magnusson, published by Vintage Books, (Book Four: The Beauty of the Heavens), 2002.

HalldÃ³r Laxness

#Land Quotes #Sky Quotes #Joy Quotes

“I'm a little bit awkward on Twitter; like, I'm never really sure what to say.”

Source : "‘Game Of Thrones’ Arya Stark Speaks: Maisie Williams On Season 3 Finale, Her Red Wedding Vine". Interview With Mike Hogan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 9, 2013.
“Horror is the removal of masks.”
“Pure photography allows us to create portraits which render their subjects with absolute truth, truth both physical and psychological. That is the principal which provided my starting point, once I had said to myself that if we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the times in which those subjects live.”
“I'm happy we have three healthy children and we'll stay with three healthy children.”
“We operate here under directives which emanate from the White House... The substance of the directives under which we operate is that we shall use our grant making power to alter life in the United States such that we can comfortably be merged with the Soviet Union.”
“Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.”
“There are very complicated issues here [about NATO], and I don't want to give them short shrift.”
“Breakthroughs happen when the insight comes that I can do something right now to improve things. I am constantly looking to do something to provide people with strategies to create those immediate breakthroughs. That's my mission.”

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