“I went north — I did not try to hide myself. When a god or a demon saw me, then I would die, but meanwhile I was no longer afraid. My hunger for knowledge burned in me — there was so much that I could not understand.”

Source: By the Waters of Babylon (1937)

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poet, short story writer, novelist 1898–1943

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