all. I put my legs up on the bench and leaned back, the best way to feel the true well-being of seclusion. There wasn't a cloud in my mind, nor did I feel any discomfort, and I hadn't a single unfulfilled desire or craving as far as my thought could reach. I lay with open eyes in a state of utter absence from myself and felt deliciously out of it.” …..Norwegian Nobel Prize winner, Knut Hamsun, published his highly regarded novel, "Hunger" in 1890. Influenced, no doubt, by the author’s own struggles as an unknown writer; it is an outstanding example of modern psychology driven literature.

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