"I wonder if the nursery and the chamber……" — Tove Jansson
"I wonder if the nursery and the chamber of horrors are as far apart as people think?"
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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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I deliberately keep myself apart from a lot of stuff; I don't Tweet, I don't do Facebook, I don't blog,…
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If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us…
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Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.
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One of the great advantages of cremation - apart from all sanitary conditions - lies in the swift restoration to…
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Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.
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The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?
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What goes on in Europe concerns us greatly because, if Europe comes apart, the E.U. comes apart, then you're going…
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Apart from a period of crisis during my adolescence, when my voice was changing and I could not tame it…
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