Quotes by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

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Whether it is painting, sculpture, poetry or music, art has no other object than to strip away the practically useful symbols, the conventionally and socially accepted generalities, finally, everything that hides reality from us, in order to put face to face with reality itself...

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There are two kinds of books: those that increase in man the love of life and the desire to do good, and those that do not; the former are good, the latter are bad, however splendid and brilliant they may be in their details.