The world is a song, but we do not know whether it is a good song because we have nothing to compare it with.

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  I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside

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  Love of, and respect for, the humble routine of everyday life and its creatures was the only moral

• Halldor Laxness:

  My thoughts fly to the old Icelandic storytellers who created our classics, whose personalities wer

• Halldor Laxness:

  From the very first, my countrymen have followed my literary career, now criticizing, now praising

• Hall Caine:

  Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our chu

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  I want the government to resign and an emergency government to be proclaimed, preferably made up of

• Hallgrimur Helgason:

  Thanks to the Jolabokaflod, books still matter in Iceland; they get read and talked about. Exciteme

• Hallgrimur Helgason:

  Being a writer in Iceland, you get rewarded all the time: People really do read our books, and they

• Hallgrimur Helgason:

  In Iceland, book lives matter in every sense of that phrase: The shelf-life of the book, the lives