"Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements."

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In modern novels I try to not let myself get away and to be here, and that's why I write about my life and myself. But even when I do that there's an element of disappearing to a place that's not me. It's "the selflessness of writing". It seldom happens, but when it does it's worth quite a lot.

— Karl Ove Knausgard