I have gone to the forest.

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For I mean to roam and think and make great irons red-hot.

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When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.

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I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation.

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No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.

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In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

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However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science.

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Today riches and honours have been lavished on me, but one gift has been lacking, the most important one of all, the only one that matters, the gift of youth.

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Heaven knows that there are plenty of opportunities in later life, too, for being carried away. What of it? We remain what we are and, no doubt, it is all very good for us!

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In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you.

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