Selma Lagerlof Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Selma Lagerlof:

I thought of my father and felt a deep sorrow that he should no longer be alive, and that I could not go to him and tell him that I had been awarded the Nobel Prize. I knew that no one would have been happier than he to hear this.
~Selma Lagerlof


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/selma-lagerlof-quotes/#e5a5ec4f

What would have become of me if no one had wanted to read my books? And don't forget all those who have written of me.
~Selma Lagerlof


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/selma-lagerlof-quotes/#7d3e9fda

I had become shy of life's bustle in my solitary retreat and was apprehensive at the thought of facing the world.
~Selma Lagerlof


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/selma-lagerlof-quotes/#26055b5d

Anyone who has ever sat in a train as it rushes through a dark night will know that sometimes there are long minutes when the coaches slide smoothly along without so much as a shudder.
~Selma Lagerlof


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/selma-lagerlof-quotes/#dec9c180

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