I came to you a crossbearer on a stretcher and an outcast from humanity, and I went from you a conqueror of life. (Halldór Laxness)

I came to you a crossbearer on a stretcher and an outcast from humanity, and I went from you a conqueror of life.

Halldór Laxness

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