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I need to write down my observations. Even the tiniest ones they're the most important.
Tove Jansson
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Tove Jansson
Age: 86 †
Born: 1914
Born: August 9
Died: 2001
Died: June 27
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Tove Marika Jansson
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Someone who eats pancakes and jam can't be so awfully dangerous. You can talk to him.
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I'm not sure I would have ever started to draw, let alone write, if my childhood hadn't been so happy. It was a mixture of comfort and adventure. An excellent mixture!
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One makes a trip by day, but by night one sets out on a journey.
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And all you can do is just read, she said. She raised her voice an screamed, You just read and read and read! Then she threw herself down on the table and wept.
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One can't be too dangerous, if they like to eat pancakes. Especially with jam on it.
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... 'I've been doing everything for an awfully long time, and I've seen and lived as hard as I could, and it's been unbelievable, I tell you, unbelievable. But now I have the feeling everything's gliding away from me, and I don't remember, and I don't care, and yet now is right when I need it!'. [pp. 84-85]
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Gathering is peculiar, because you see nothing but what you're looking for. If you're picking raspberries, you see only what's red, and if you're looking for bones you see only the white. No matter where you go, the only thing you see is bones.
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It was a particularly good evening to begin a book.
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Lie on the bridge and watch the water flowing past. Or run, or wade through the swamp in your red boots. Or roll yourself up and listen to the rain falling on the roof. It's very easy to enjoy yourself.
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You can't always be friendly. It's impossible, there isn't the time.
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They were always doing something. Quietly, without interruption, and with great concentration, they carried on with the hundred-and-one small things that made up their world.
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Everyone must imagine his own snakes because no one else's snakes can ever be as awful.
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Everything's much too big here,' thought Moominmamma. 'Or perhaps I'm too small.
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It's funny about love', Sophia said. 'The more you love someone, the less he likes you back.' 'That's very true,' Grandmother observed. 'And so what do you do?' 'You go on loving,' said Sophia threateningly. 'You love harder and harder.
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Why are you in such a rush? Sophia asked, and her grandmother answered that it was a good idea to do things before you forgot that they had to be done.
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The hemulen woke up slowly and recognised himself and wished he had been someone he didn't know.
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The lamp sizzled as it burned. It made everything seem close and safe, a little family circle they all knew and trusted. Outside this circle lay everything that was strange and frightening, and the darkness seemed to reach higher and higher and further and further away, right to the end of the world.
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I don't want to hear about them any more. I could vomit on the Moomintrolls.
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There's no need to imagine that you're a wondrous beauty, because that's what you are.
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It's risky to talk about one's most secret dreams a bit too early.
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