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Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf was a Swedish author and teacher. She was the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

✵ 20. November 1858 – 16. March 1940  •  Other names Selma O.L. Lagerlöfová, Selma Lagerlöfová
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Famous Selma Lagerlöf Quotes

“If you have learned anything at all from us, Tummetott, you no longer think that the humans should have the whole earth to themselves.”

Selma Lagerlöf

The Further Adventures of Nils (1907)
Said by Akka, leader of the wild geese to Nils

“Women can do nothing that has permanence.”

Selma Lagerlöf

The Miracles of Anti-Christ (1899)

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