The only thing I have learned from life is to endure it, never to question it, and to burn up the longing generated by this in writing. Where this id… - Karl Ove Knausgård

The only thing I have learned from life is to endure it, never to question it, and to burn up the longing generated by this in writing.

If you really love me, you have to come to me without demands, I thought but didn’t say, I wanted her to notice on her own.

I walked around Stockholm’s streets, modern and feminized, with a furious nineteenth-century man inside me.

From my own childhood I remember only a handful of incidents, all of which I regarded as momentous, but which I now understand were a few events among many, which completely expunges their meaning, for how can I know that those particular episodes that lodged themselves in my mind were decisive, and not all the others of which I remember nothing?