Erlend Loe Quotes

• I don't want all that much. But I want to be fine. I want to live a simple life with many good moments and a lot of fun.

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  Fun, Simple, Want

  Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.71, Canongate Books

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• We shall never meet, but there is something I want you to know. My time is not the same as your time. Our times are not the same. And do you know what that means? That means that time does not exist. Do you want me to repeat that? There is no time. There is a life and a death. There are people and animals. Our thoughts exist. And the world. The universe, too. But there is no time. You might as well take it easy. Do you feel better now? I feel better. This is going to work out. Have a nice day.

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  Nice, Mean, Feel Better

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• I think I'm more concerned with things that are very big and things that are very small than with all the stuff in between.

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  Thinking, Stuff, Bigs

  Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.75, Canongate Books

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• …I don’t wish to meet people. They disgust me. Increasingly so. But I must have milk.

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  People, Wish, Milk

  Erlend Loe (2013). “Lazy Days”, p.170, Head of Zeus

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• One problem with people is that as soon as they fill a space it's them you see and not the space. Large, desolate landscapes stop being large, desolate landscapes once they have people in them. They define what the eye sees. And the human eye is almost always directed at other humans. In this way an illusion is created that humans are more important than those things on earth which are not human. It's a sick illusion.

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  Eye, Space, People

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• Something is going to have to happen. Not necessarily something big. Just something.

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  Bigs, Happens

  Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.10, Canongate Books

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• I have enough trouble with useful information, never mind being burdened with what is useless.

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  Mind, Useless, Information

  Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.55, Canongate Books

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• When the universe is ephemeral, one can easily feel that human existence is meaningless. Why should I do anything at all? On the other hand it is tempting to try and make the best of it. I'm here, anyway. The imagination won't cope if I try to picture where I'd otherwise be.

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  Hands, Imagination, Trying

  Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.49, Canongate Books

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• The only question that really counts, must be thins one: are things getting better or are they getting worse?

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  Get Better

  Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.110, Canongate Books

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• But I would rather have snow. Snow is the on.y weather I really like. Nothing makes me less grumpy than snow. I can sit by a window for hours watching it fall. The silence of snowfall. You can use that. It's best when there's background lighting, for example a street lamp. Or when you go outside and let it flutter down on you. That's real riches, that is.

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  Real, Fall, Weather

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• Everything which is human is alien to me.

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  Aliens, Humans

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• The only thing I can be sure of at any given time is what I am thinking myself. I have no idea what the others are thinking. Do they think space is big and dangerous? I do. What do they believe in? I think nobody ought to be alone. That one should be with someone. With friends. With the person one loves. I think it is important to love. I think it's the most important thing.

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  Believe, Thinking, Ideas

  Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.82, Canongate Books

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• ...the total number of galaxies in the universe seems to be in the region of ten billion, and that each of them has about a hundred billion stars the size of the sun. These numbers are so absurd that I strangely find myself in a good mood. It's all so immense. I think Paul feels a bit like this as well. There is so little I can do to make a difference. It is liberating.

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  Stars, Thinking, Differences

  Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.45, Canongate Books

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• I don't think I am any different from other people. I have the same dreams. I want a family. I want a house. A car. Why shouldn't I want that? Everybody does. And when I have it, I want it all to work.

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  Dream, Thinking, People

  Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.78, Canongate Books

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• I still don't know if things fit together, or if everything will be all right in the end. But I believe that something means something. I believe in cleansing the soul through fun and games. I also believe in love. And I have several good friends, and just one bad one.

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  Fun, Believe, Mean

  Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.135, Canongate Books

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• It's good for me to see so many other people who are not me. That there are so many others. I feel affection for them. Most of them are doing the best they can. I am also doing the best I can.

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  People, Affection, Feels

  Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.115, Canongate Books

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• There are too many confusing things present. Things I know. Thoughts I have. Sarcasm. Things I think I ought to be doing and places I ought to be going. Always other places.

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  Sarcasm, Thinking, Confusing

  Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.33, Canongate Books

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• I know a helluva lot. I'm not the only one who knows these things. Many people know more than I do. That's fortunately not my problem. My problem is what I am supposed to use it for. What do I do with it? It's confusing.

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  People, Confusing, Use

  Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.25, Canongate Books

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• What I could really use is an older man. A mentor. One who could tell me how things fit together. He would have asked me to do chores that I felt were meaningless. I would have been impatient and protested, but done them nonetheless. And eventually, after several months of hard labour, I would have realised that there was a deeper meaning behind it all, and that the master had a cunning plan all the time.

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  Men, Together, Months

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• Everything seemed meaningless to me. All of a sudden. My own life, the lives of others, of animals of plants, the whole world. It no longer fitted together.

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  Animal, Together, World

  Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.7, Canongate Books

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• I have the strangest thoughts in my head, maybe I should not write them down.

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  Writing, Should

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