Though one can dine in New York, one could not dwell there.
Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.
Time is waste of money.
To be entirely free, and at the same time, entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life that we realise at every moment.
To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.
To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
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This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.