Selma Lagerlöf Quotes

• There is always a third possibility, as long as you have the ability to find it.

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  Long, Possibility, Ability

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• For, so long as there are interesting books to read, it seems to me that neither I nor anyone else, for that matter, need be unhappy.

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  Book, Long, Interesting

  Selma Lagerlöf (1975). “Memories of my childhood: further years at Mårbacka”, Kraus Reprint. Co.

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• Nadie es capaz de disfrutar de semejante festín que quien organiza una fiesta en su propia mente.

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  Party, Writing, Mind

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• Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.

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  Death, Loss, Earth

  Selma Lagerlöf (2016). “Jerusalem”, p.233, Library of Alexandria

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• Never repeat a rumor before you have verified it. And if it is true, hold your tongue all the more.

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  Rumor, Tongue, Repeats

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• Strange, when you ask anyone's advice you see yourself what is right.

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  Advice, Strange, Asks

  Selma Lagerlöf (2016). “Jerusalem”, p.17, Library of Alexandria

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• Women can do nothing that has permanence.

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  Dishes, Can Do, Permanence

  Selma Lagerlöf (2016). “Christ Legends and the Miracles of Antichrist”, p.359, Library of Alexandria

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• What is so certain of victory as patience?

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  Patience, Victory, Certain

  Selma Lagerlöf (1914). “The Story of Gösta Berling”

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• More die in flight than in battle.

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  War, Battle, Flight

  Selma Lagerlöf (1914). “The Story of Gösta Berling”

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• It is a strange thing to come home. While yet on the journey, you cannot at all realize how strange it will be.

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  Spiritual, Travel, Women

  Selma Lagerlöf (2016). “Christ Legends and the Miracles of Antichrist”, p.477, Library of Alexandria

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• He who is sorrowful can force himself to smile, but he who is glad cannot weep.

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  Personality, Force, Sorrowful

  Selma Lagerlöf (1914). “The Story of Gösta Berling”

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• There isn't much that tastes better than praise from those who are wise and capable.

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  Wise, Taste, Praise

  Selma Lagerlöf (2013). “The Wonderful Adventures of Nils”, p.78, Courier Corporation

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• ... I see the green earth covered with the works of man or with the ruins of men’s work. The pyramids weigh down the earth, the tower of Babel has pierced the sky, the lovely temples and the gray castles have fallen into ruins. But of all those things which hands have built, what hasn’t fallen nor ever will fall? Dear friends, throw away the trowel and mortarboard! Throw your masons’ aprons over your heads and lie down to build dreams! What are temples of stone and clay to the soul? Learn to build eternal mansions of dreams and visions!

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  Dream, Lying, Fall

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• A man may be outlawed for the sake of a fish net he has never seen.

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  Men, May, Sake

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• Si las cosas muertas aman, si la tierra y el agua distinguen a los amigos de los enemigos, me gustaría poseer su amor. Quisiera que la verde tierra no sintiera mi paso como una pesada carga. Quisiera que perdonara que por mi causa la hieran el arado y la grada, y que abriera de buen grado para mi cadáver.

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  Water, Forgiving, Enemy

  Selma Lagerlöf (1914). “The Story of Gösta Berling”

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• There is so much one would rather not believe until one has seen for oneself whether it is true.

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  Believe, Belief, Oneself

  Selma Lagerlöf (1936). “Mårbacka”

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• Have you ever seen a child sitting on its mother’s knee listening to fairy stories? As long as the child is told of cruel giants and of the terrible suffering of beautiful princesses, it holds its head up and its eyes open; but if the mother begins to speak of happiness and sunshine, the little one closes its eyes and falls asleep with its head against her breast. . . . I am a child like that, too. Others may like stories of flowers and sunshine; but I choose the dark nights and sad destinies.

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  Hermosa, Madre, Hijos

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• It is often the case with the silent children about us, that they cherish a dream which they dare not talk about.

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  Dream, Children, Cherish

  Selma Lagerlöf (2012). “Gösta Berling's Saga”, p.157, Courier Corporation

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• Los caminos de la Providencia no pueden ser razonados por la mente finita... No puedo comprenderlos, pero tratar de conocerlos es lo más satisfactorio del mundo.

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  God, Mind, World

  Selma Lagerlöf (2016). “Jerusalem”, p.62, Library of Alexandria

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• Young horses who cannot bear the whip or spur find life hard. At every smart they start forward and rush to their destruction, and when the way is stony and difficult, they know no better expedient than to overturn the cart and gallop madly away.

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  Life, Horse, Smart

  Selma Lagerlöf (2012). “Gösta Berling's Saga”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• For what is man's soul but a flame? It flickers in and around the body of a man as does the flame around the rough log.

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  Hombres, llamas, alma

  Selma Lagerlöf (1928). “The general's ring”

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• There is so little that one can do for the dead!

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  Littles, Can Do

  Selma Lagerlöf (2016). “The Emperor of Portugallia”, p.191, Library of Alexandria

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• Aquí no se muestra misericordia. Se odia al prójimo para gloria de Dios.

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  Hate, Men, Atheism

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• No es un buen augurio encontrarse con muchos gatos cuando se emprende un viaje, así que el teniente escupió tres veces por cada gato, como su madre le había enseñado a hacer.

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  Mother, Cat, Journey

  Selma Lagerlöf (1936). “Mårbacka”

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