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Quotation from Christ Legends by Selma Lagerlöf
“When I was five years old I had such a great sorrow! I hardly know if I have had a greater since.”
Christ Legends, The Holy Night, trans. Velma Swanston Howard (1908)
The opening of the book, as Lagerlöf recalls her grandmother's death before telling the Christmas story the grandmother gave her.
Citation: "When I was five years old I had such a great sorrow! I hardly know if I have had a greater since." — Selma Lagerlöf, Christ Legends, The Holy Night, trans. Velma Swanston Howard (1908). (id christ-legends-q1)
Portrait: Atelje Jaeger - Selma Lagerlöf 1928, Atelier Jaeger, Public domain.
