Hunger

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The epigraph of Hamsun’s book on America reads, “Truth is disinterested subjectivity.” — 280

As soon as I opened my eyes I started wondering, by force of habit, whether I had anything to look forward to today. — 383

Autumn had arrived, that lovely, cool time of year when everything turns color and dies. — 392

I keep watching this bustling fellow and feel my resentment toward him swelling within me. I felt he was slowly ruining my cheery mood and dragging this pure, lovely morning down with him, into ugliness, as well. — 443

However estranged I was from myself in that moment, so completely at the mercy of invisible influences, nothing that was taking place around me escaped my perception. — 526

But where God had touched me with the finger of his hand he let me be and touched me no more, and allowed no evil to befall me. He let me go in peace, and he let me go with that gaping hole. And no evil shall befall me from God, who is the Lord through all eternity. . . — 608