Hjalmar Söderberg said this quote

We know so little about one another. We embrace a shadow and love a dream.

~ Hjalmar Söderberg

There are people who haven't any gift for happiness at all and are painfully and ruthlessly aware of the fact. Such people don't seek happiness, only to get a little form and style into their unhappiness

~ Hjalmar Söderberg

People want to be loved, failing that admired, failing that feared, failing that hated and despised. They want to evoke some sort of sentiment. The soul shudders before oblivion and seeks connection at any price.

~ Hjalmar Söderberg

In the days when I was ambitious I worked out a very pretty little plan for conquering the whole earth and rearranging things as they ought to be; and when, in the end, everything became so good it almost began to be boring, then I was going to stuff my pockets with as much money as I could lay hands on and creep away, vanish in some cosmopolis and sit at a corner cafe and drink absinthe and enjoy seeing how everything went to the devil as soon as I wasn't on the scene any more.

~ Hjalmar Söderberg