“I love three things," I then say. "I love a dream of love I once had, I love you, and I love this patch of earth."

"And which do you love best?"

"The dream.”

— Knut Hamsun

Source: Pan: From Lieutenant Thomas Glahn's Papers

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Norwegian novelist and Nobel Prize recipient 1859–1952

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