"A theatre is the most important sort of……" — Tove Jansson
"A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world, because that's where people are shown what they could be if they wanted, and what they'd like to be if they dared to and what they really are"
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71 Quotes by Tove Jansson
Tove Jansson has 71 quotes on this site.
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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.…
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One makes a trip by day, but by night one sets out on a journey.
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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 don't want to hear about them any more. I could vomit on the Moomintrolls.
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A person can find anything if he takes the time, that is, if he can afford to look. And while…
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Look at The Adventure. A boat by night is a wonderful sight. This is the way to start a new life,…
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Storms probably exist only because after them we can have a sunrise.
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There are those who stay at home and those who go away, and it has always been so. Everyone can…
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One has to discover everything for oneself. And get over it all alone.
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Grandmother walked up over the bare granite and thought about birds in general. It seemed to her no other creature…
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Now everything was changed. She walked about with cautious, anxious steps, staring constantly at the ground, on the lookout for…
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Dogs are mute and obedient, but they have watched us and know us and can smell how pitiful we are.
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Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in…
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My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many…
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It was this same Jesus, the Christ who, among many other remarkable things, said and repeated something which, proceeding from…
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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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When the dust settles and the pages of history are written, it will not be the angry defenders of intolerance…
— John Shelby Spong
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No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the…
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I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on…
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This is a very fundamental reason why man cannot become meditative - or why very few men have dared to…
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My caddie dared me to try it, but I didn't think it was worth losing a ball.
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We have crushed the whole force which dared to venture there. They were on the runway at Saddam International Airport.…
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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Only those who have dared to let go can dare to re-enter.
— Meister Eckhart
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