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View Plans“ ”As your perspective of the world increases not only is the pain it inflicts on you less but also its meaning. Understanding the world requires you to take a certain distance from it.
About Karl Ove Knausgård
Karl Ove Knausgård (born 6 December 1968) is a Norwegian author.
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As your perspective of the world increases not only is the pain it inflicts on you less but also its meaning.
Additional quotes by Karl Ove Knausgård
If dogs can smell fear, girls can smell nervousness, that was my experience.
I have always had a great need for solitude. I require huge swathes of loneliness and when I do not have it, which has been the case for the last five years, my frustration can sometimes become almost panicked, or aggressive.
That was my only parameter with art, the feelings it aroused. The feeling of inexhaustibility. The feeling of beauty. The feeling of presence.