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People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent.
Jostein Gaarder
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Jostein Gaarder
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 8
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A joker is a little fool who is different from everyone else. He's not a club, diamond, heart, or spade. He's not an eight or a nine, a king or a jack. He is an outsider. He is placed in the same pack as the other cards, but he doesn't belong there. Therefore, he can be removed without anybody missing him.
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If an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can't ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent.
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It is different for us mortals. We are the ones who become old and grey. We are the ones who become worn at the seams and disappear. But not our dreams. They can live on in other people even after we have gone.
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