"If only one had a piece of bread! One of those delicious little loaves of rye bread that you could munch on as you wa…"

"I sit there on the bench and write 1848 dozens of times; I write this number criss-cross in all possible shapes and w…"

"Here I was walking around so hungry that my intestines were squirming inside me like snakes, and I had no guarantee t…"

"I walked very slowly, passed Majorstuen, continued onward, always onward, walked for hours, and finally got out to th…"

"Nothing helped; I was fading helplessly away with open eyes, staring straight at the ceiling. Finally I stuck my fore…"

"It was in those days when I wandered about hungry in Kristiania, that strange city which no one leaves before it has …"

"Suddenly one or two good sentences occur to me, suitable for a sketch or story, nice linguistic flukes the likes of w…"

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

"And love became the world's origin and the world's ruler, yet littered its path is with flowers and blood, flowers an…"

"I passed my hand up along my cheeks: thin - of course I was thin, my cheeks were like two bowls with the bottoms in. …"