"An island can be dreadful for someone from……" — Tove Jansson
"An island can be dreadful for someone from outside. Everything is complete, and everyone has his obstinate, sure and self-sufficient place. Within their shores, everything functions according to rituals that are as hard as rock from repetition, and at the same time they amble through their days as whimsically and casually as if the world ended at the horizon."
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71 Quotes by Tove Jansson
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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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Dogs are mute and obedient, but they have watched us and know us and can smell how pitiful we are.
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