Jens Peter Jacobsen - Niels Lyhne (1880)

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Haven't you noticed that we women daydream infinitely less than you men? We can't anticipate pleasure in our imagination or keep suffering out our lives with some imaginary consolation.Whatever is, is.Imagintion! It's so paltry! Yes, when you've grown older, as I have, you occasionally make do with the poor comedy of the imagination.

Jens Peter Jacobsen

For the first time his mind grasped the fact that when life has sentenced you to suffer, the sentence is neither a fancy nor a threat, but you are dragged to the rack, and you are tortured, and there is no marvelous rescue at the last moment, no awakening as from a bad dream. He felt it as a foreboding which struck him with terror.

Jens Peter Jacobsen

Break the ice, or draw that which lives in the dimness out into the full light of speech - what happens is the same: that which is now seen and now grasped is not, in its clearness, the shadowy thing that was.

Jens Peter Jacobsen