"It's a funny thing about bogs. You can……" — Tove Jansson
"It's a funny thing about bogs. You can fill them with rocks and sand and old logs and make a little fenced-in yard on top with a woodpile and chopping block - but bogs go right on behaving like bogs. Early in the spring they breathe ice and make their own mist, in remembrance of the time when they had black water and their own sedge blossoming untouched."
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Tove Jansson
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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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In some ways, I always thought you're better off behaving like a rock star when you're a normal person. Because…
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Behaving like a princess is work. It's not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It's more about how…
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Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always…
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Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to…
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When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused…
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The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in…
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If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire.
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Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving…
— Marquis de Sade
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I've spent my whole life doing some things because they were logical and not doing others because they were not.…
— Stephen King
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Atoms are weird stuff, behaving like active agents rather than inert substances. They make unpredictable choices between alternative possibilities according…
— Freeman Dyson
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