“[T]ime passed and there was really no romance in life anymore, only the tedious tranquility of marriage without excitement or curiosity, the dull routine of making a comfortable living with nothing to nourish the imagination.”

Heimsljós (World Light) (1940), Book One: The Revelation of the Deity

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Icelandic author 1902–1998

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