It's a useful habit to never believe more than half of what people tell you, and not to … - Halldór Laxness

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The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.

Halldór Laxness

It's a useful habit to never believe more than half of what people tell you, and not to concern yourself with the rest. Rather keep your mind free and your path your own.

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Where the glacier meets the sky, the land ceases to be earthly, and the earth becomes one with the heavens; no sorrows live there anymore, and therefore joy is not necessary; beauty alone reigns there, beyond all demands.

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Whoever doesn't live in poetry cannot survive here on earth.

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Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.

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