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From Quotes by Jostein Gaarder
- I believe there is something of the divine mystery in everything that exists. We can see it sparkle in a sunflower or a poppy. We…
- I have gone around observing your activities from the outside. Because of this I have also been able to see things to which you have…
- A joker is a little fool who is different from everyone else. He's not a club, diamond, heart, or spade. He's not an eight or…
- Socrates, whose mother was a midwife, used to say that his art was like the art of the midwife. She does not herself give birth…
- But she’d managed to find her way into our reality, perhaps because she had an important mission here, perhaps because she was here to save…
- But all fairytales have rules, and perhaps it’s their rules that actually distinguish one fairytale from the other. These rules never need to be understood.…
- When we gaze at a star in the Milky Way which is 50,000 light-years away from our sun, we are looking back 50,000 years in…
- The soul yearns to fly home on the wings of love to the world of ideas. It longs to be freed from the chains of…
- Where did the world come from? The question has an answer, even though I cannot get to it. It is a good question. It is…
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