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Nobel Prize in Literature 1908 - Presentation Speech |
 | | Turning to literature with the same philanthropic concern, he established a prize for what he called «excellence in works of an idealistic tendency». |
| | He knew what ideals mean to the human mind, to the will that creates and maintains civilization, cultivates and reaps its fruits, and through the struggle and darkness of life breaks a path toward a new dawn of light and peace. |
| | The creations and forms of this literature are as manifold s the ideals, and they are forever new and free. |
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