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It was all too easy to make things up, it was like skating on thin ice, it was like doing dainty pirouettes on a brittle crust over water thousands of fathoms deep.
Jostein Gaarder
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Jostein Gaarder
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 8
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