“But she who wins the lot of life must also draw the lot of death, since the lot of life is death” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Every single morning I wake with a bang,' he said. 'It's as though the fact that I am alive is injected into… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“She was a stranger. She came from a more beautiful fairytale than ours. But she’d managed to find her way into our… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
And although I have seen nothing but black crows in my life, it doesn't mean that there's no such thing as a… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Dear Hilde, I assume you're still celebrating your 15th birthday. Or is it the morning after? Anyways, it makes no difference to… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“who had jolted Sophie out of her everyday existence and suddenly brought her face to face with the great riddles of the… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Watching Limelight with my mother really brought home to me the brevity of life. I realized in a little while that I… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Life is short for those who are truly able to understand that one day the entire world will come to a complete… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“When we dream, we feel we are experiencing reality. What separates our waking feelings from our dream feelings?" "When I consider this… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“But Dad said we had to try, because neither he or I could bear the thought of living the rest of our… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“I've nothing against eye make-up and lipstick. But the fact is we're actually living on a planet in space. For me that's… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“I no longer feel the need to see and sense more than I've already experienced. I just want so desperately to hang on what… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
The sophists were as a rule men who had traveled widely and seen different forms of government. Both conventions and local laws in the… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Where did the world come from? The question has an answer, even though I cannot get to it. It is a good question. It… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“As soon as she concentrated on being alive now, the thought of dying also came into her mind.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Po haljini sam mogao da vidim kako njeno telo diše, jer se haljina dizala i spuštala, dizala i spuštala, skoro kao da morski talasi… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Since the Renaissance, people have had to get used to living their life on a random planet in the vast galaxy. — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“The German poet Goethe once said that "he who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth." I don't want… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Sophie left the den and wandered about in the large garden. She tried to forget what she had learned at school, especially in science… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
...long before the child learns to talk properly-and long before it learns to think philosophically-the world will have become a habit. A pity, if… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
