4 Quotes & Sayings By Lars Saabye Christensen

Lars Saabye Christensen was born in Copenhagen in 1971. A writer by profession, he is best known for his novel Først og sidst (First and Last), which won the European Union Prize for Literature in 1999. He has also written several other novels, including Sult (2004) and Den hvide død (The White Death, 2009).

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... and it occured to me then and forever afterwards, that films, theatre books and poems were just a fraud. It's only music that doesn't deceive, it doesn't pretend to be anything else except what it is. Music. Lars Saabye Christensen
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We do not disappear without a trace. We leave a wake that never quite disappears, a gash in time that we so laboriously leave behind us. Lars Saabye Christensen
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And before me the empty table at the Theater Café with my reservation - Barnum Nilsen, 8PM - the only table no one sits at. And this too is an echo, an echo of time, the shadows of a discus spinning through blinding sunlight. Lars Saabye Christensen