“I felt that I was dying, and perhaps I did die a little, or rather began to die in the way that the cocoon of the chrysalis cracks at the end of winter; but unfortunately I did not die so thoroughly that I achieved new life like a butterfly.”

— Halldór Laxness

Brekkukotsannáll (The Fish Can Sing) (1957)

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Icelandic author 1902–1998

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