“We can't own each other's past. The question is whether we have a future together.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
There are five billion people living on this planet. But you fall in love with one particular person, and you won't swap… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Možda se nijedna druga vrsta intimnosti ne može uporediti sa dva polgeda koja se susreću sa istom sigurnošću i odlučnošću i jednostavnošću… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
The soul yearns to fly home on the wings of love to the world of ideas. It longs to be freed from… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Love, your own witch-daughter, Queen of the Mirror and the Highest Protector of Irony” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Dear Hilde, if the human brain was simple enough for us to understand, we would still be so stupid that we couldn't… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
The stupidest thing she knew was for people to act like they knew all about the things they knew absolutely nothing about. — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Do you mind telling me what's suddenly so important?' Sophie just shook her head. 'It's...it's a secret.' 'Yuck! You're probably in love.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Empedocles believed that there were two different forces at work in nature. He called them love and strife. Love binds things together,… — 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