“Do you know that these mountains you're looking at don't really exist at all? Or can't you see that they belong more to the sky than the earth? All this enchanting blueness which enthralls you is an illusion.”

—  Halldór Laxness

Örn Úlfar
Heimsljós (World Light) (1940), Book Two: The Palace of the Summerland

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