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I don't want to hear about them any more. I could vomit on the Moomintrolls.

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Tove Jansson
Age: 86 †
Born: 1914
Born: August 9
Died: 2001
Died: June 27
Cartoonist
Illustrator
Novelist
Painter
Writer
Helsingfors
Tove Marika Jansson
Tove M. Jansson
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It was a particularly good evening to begin a book.
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You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.
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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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One can't be too dangerous, if they like to eat pancakes. Especially with jam on it.
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She started thinking about all the euphemisms for death, all the anxious taboos that had always fascinated her. It was too bad you could never have an intelligent discussion on the subject. People were either too young or too old, or else they didn't have time.
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Everything's much too big here,' thought Moominmamma. 'Or perhaps I'm too small.
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You can't always be friendly. It's impossible, there isn't the time.
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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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...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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I'll have to calm down a bit. Or else I'll burst with happiness
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I need to write down my observations. Even the tiniest ones they're the most important.
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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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Christmas always rustled. It rustled every time, mysteriously, with silver and gold paper, tissue paper and a rich abundance of shiny paper, decorating and hiding everything and giving a feeling of reckless extravagance.
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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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One makes a trip by day, but by night one sets out on a journey.
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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.
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