And isn’t it actually unbelievable that one simple name enc… - Karl Ove Knausgård

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And isn’t it actually unbelievable that one simple name encompasses all of this? The fetus in the belly, the infant on the changing table, the forty-year-old in front of the computer, the old man in the chair, the corpse on the bench?

Karl Ove Knausgård

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Karl Ove Knausgård (born 6 December 1968) is a Norwegian author.

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Alternative Names: Knausgaard, Karl Ove

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That was my only parameter with art, the feelings it aroused. The feeling of inexhaustibility. The feeling of beauty. The feeling of presence.

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