03.31.09 the dwarf

so i just finished reading 'the dwarf' by par lagerkvist.
i really can't believe i finished a book.. i am sooo proud of myself! pat on the back...
anywho... i really did enjoy this book, i loved how dark the main character was... a must read!
it was so good i had marked all the parts i liked... here are a few......
'Love is something which dies and when dead it rots and becomes soil for a new love.'
'I do not know why I say that he smiled-but it was an expression that, on another face, might have been called a smile. I wonder if, like me, he cannot smile?'
'Women always prefer the silliest and most insignificant men, because they remind them of themselves.'
'I cannot understand the love that human beings feel for each other.'
'Why are they not like me?'
'Laughter is unlovely and disfiguring.'
'They are a people without country, but the whole world is theirs.'
'People look so strangely idiotic when they are in love, and particularly when they love in vain.'

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