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Quite, quite,' she thought with a little sigh. 'It's always like this in their adventures. To save and be saved. I wish somebody would write a story sometime about the people who warm up the heroes afterward.
Tove Jansson
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Tove Jansson
Age: 86 †
Born: 1914
Born: August 9
Died: 2001
Died: June 27
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Everything's much too big here,' thought Moominmamma. 'Or perhaps I'm too small.
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When Mats came in the evenings, they would drink tea in the kitchen while reading their books and talking about them. If Katri came in, they were quiet and waited for her to leave. The back door would close, and Katri would have gone. “Does your sister read our books?” Anna wanted to know. “No. She reads literature.
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...by and by a change came: I started to muse about the shape of my nose. I put my trivial surroundings aside and mused more and more about myself, and I found this to be a bewitching occupation. I stopped asking and longed instead to speak of my thoughts and feelings. Alas, there was no one besides myself who found me interesting.
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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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I'll have to calm down a bit. Or else I'll burst with happiness
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All men have parties and are pals who never let each other down. A pal can say terrible things which are forgotten the next day. A pal never forgives, he just forgets, and a woman forgives but never forgets. That's how it is. That's why women aren't allowed to have parties. Being forgiven is very unpleasant.
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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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It was a particularly good evening to begin a book.
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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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Everyone must imagine his own snakes because no one else's snakes can ever be as awful.
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...now and then a giggling trail of mermaids appeared in our wake. We fed them oatmeal.
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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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But he thought all the strange words were beautiful, and he had never had a book of his own before.
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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 mean, anyone can let Danger out but the really clever thing is finding somewhere for it to go afterwards.
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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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But that's how it is when you start wanting to have things. Now, I just look at them, and when I go away I carry them in my head. Then my hands are always free, because I don't have to carry a suitcase.
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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 need to write down my observations. Even the tiniest ones they're the most important.
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I don't want to hear about them any more. I could vomit on the Moomintrolls.
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