Per Anders Fogelström quote

Per Anders Fogelström was a Swedish writer (1917-1998). He is best known for a series of novels (City of My Dreams, being the most famous one) picturing working-class people in Stockholm from 1860 to 1968. He is also famous for writing the novel Summer with Monika (1951), later turned into a film by Ingmar Bergman.

The quote is from his novel Den okuvliga friheten, written in 1939 and published for the first time in 2017.