Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.
The cold grips us like handcuffs and the heat is the liberating key.
Someone must lead the way.
You can't live with literary characters no matter how much you might like to. You can have them as imaginary friends that you can call up when you need to. One of the tasks of art is to provide people...
Not having time for a person, not being able to sit in silence together with somebody, that's the same as rejecting them, as being scornful about them.
There was a sort of beauty that only comes with age. A whole life engraved into facial wrinkles.
New ideas are always resisted.
Dreams can be of value even if you don’t have an opportunity to turn them into reality.
You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.
We used to send whole flocks of birds shooting out of our mouths and never managed to grab them by their wings.
This is what Sweden is - quiet people leaning over the newspapers and coffee cups, each one with his own thoughts and destiny.
There are two kinds of dangerous situations. One is the kind you get yourself into. The other just sucks you in.
Our colleagues don’t sound happy, Björk said with concern. It’s never popular to bring in someone from your own force. It’s going to be a dismal winter because of this.
Once more they had left their own time for another age. The age of Bellman, the bacchanalian 18th-century poet.
At the time of independence in 1975, Mozambique was extremely poor. Many Portuguese residents abandoned the country, leaving only a handful of well-educated Mozambicans to try to run the country.
Self-preservation was more important than revenge, and
Wallander felt on the verge of misconduct.
One can never wait too long.
History isn't just something that's being us, it's also something that follows us.
Every secret we confide in anotherperson can be a burden to them