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Halldór Kiljan Laxness , né à Reykjavik le 23 avril 1902 et décédé dans la même ville le 8 février 1998, est un écrivain islandais du XXe siècle. À trois années d'intervalle, il reçoit le prix international de la paix en 1952 et le prix Nobel de littérature en 1955. Wikipedia  

✵ 23. avril 1902 – 8. février 1998   •   Autres noms هالدور لاکسنس, Հալդոր Լաքսնես
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Halldór Laxness: Citations en anglais

“Sell the country, bury bones. What else?”

Halldór Laxness livre The Atom Station

the unself-conscious policeman
Atómstöðin (The Atom Station) (1948)

“Anyone who doesn't know others doesn't know himself.”

Borgi
Paradísarheimt (Paradise Reclaimed) (1960)

“It's a pity we don't whistle at one another, like birds. Words are misleading.”

Halldór Laxness livre Kristnihald undir Jökli (bók)

Pastor Jón Prímus
Kristnihald undir Jökli (Under the Glacier/Christianity at Glacier) (1968)

“He who weeps does not die; weeping is a sign of life; weep, and your life is worth something again.”

Halldór Laxness livre The Atom Station

Atómstöðin (The Atom Station) (1948)

“When's there ever been a decent saint who didn't start out as a thief?”

Jón Hreggviðsson
Íslandsklukkan (Iceland's Bell) (1946), Part III: Fire in Copenhagen

“How is one to have any respect for the world where nothing else matters except who can lie the most plausibly and steal the most?”

Þórunn of Kambar
Heimsljós (World Light) (1940), Book Two: The Palace of the Summerland

“No one is so busy that he hasn't the time to dismantle a work of art.”

Halldór Laxness livre Kristnihald undir Jökli (bók)

Pastor Jón Prímus
Kristnihald undir Jökli (Under the Glacier/Christianity at Glacier) (1968)

“My children have never brought any shame upon their father. They have been independent children, my children.”

Bjartur
Sjálfstætt fólk (Independent People) (1935), Book Two, Part II: Years of Prosperity

“People who like to display complicated technique in their verse are more given to pride themselves on their work than are those who write for their own solace.”

Einar in "Shepherds' Meet"
Sjálfstætt fólk (Independent People) (1935), Book One, Part I: Icelandic Pioneers