Bernt Carlsson - Literature

Literature

John Douglas-Gray in his thriller 'The Novak Legacy' ISBN 978-0-7552-1321-4

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    No state can build
    A literature that shall at once be sound
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    To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do we have from the past? Art and thought. That’s what lasts. That’s what continues to feed people and given them an idea of something better. A better state of one’s feelings or simply the idea of a silence in one’s self that allows one to think or to feel. Which to me is the same.
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