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There are some people who cannot help giving. why? because they experience a real psychological pleasure in doing so. they don't do it with an eye to their own advantage, they do it on the quiet; they detest doing it openly because that would take away some of the satisfaction. they do it in secret, with quick trembling hands, their breasts rocked by a spiritual well being which they do not themselves understand.

-Knut Hamsun

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There Are Some People Who Cannot Help

Knut Hamsun

There are some people who cannot help giving. why? because they experience a real psychological pleasure in doing so. they don't do it with an eye to their own advantage, they do it on the quiet; they detest doing it openly because that would take away some of the satisfaction. they do it in secret, with quick trembling hands, their breasts rocked by a spiritual well being which they do not themselves understand.

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