Tove Jansson quotes - page 2

He was the owner of the moonlight on the ground, he fell in love with the most beautiful of the trees, he made wreaths of leaves and strung them around his neck. (Tove Jansson)

It's strange,” Moominmamma thought. "Strange that people can be sad, and even angry because life is too easy. But that's the way it is, I suppose. The only thing to do is to start life afresh.

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You must go on a long journey before you can really find out how wonderful home is.

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It looks rather ordinary," said the Snork. "Unless you consider that a top hat is always somewhat extraordinary, of course.

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One summer morning at sunrise a long time ago I met a little girl with a book under her arm. I asked her why she was out so early and she answered that there were too many books and far too little time. And there she was absolutely right.

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Why are you in such a rush?" Sophia asked, and her grandmother answered that it was a good idea to do things before you forgot that they had to be done.

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Most of the people are homesick anyway, and a little lonely, and they hide themselves in their hair and are turned into flowers.

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Quite, quite,' she thought with a little sigh. 'It's always like this in their adventures. To save and be saved. I wish somebody would write a story sometime about the people who warm up the heroes afterward.

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But that's how it is when you start wanting to have things. Now, I just look at them, and when I go away I carry them in my head. Then my hands are always free, because I don't have to carry a suitcase.

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All men are chums who will never leave each other in the lurch. A chum doesn't forgive, he just forgets - women forgive everything but never forget. Being forgiven is very unpleasant.

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People idealise their animals, and at the same time they patronisingly overlook a dog's natural life - biting fleas, burying bones, rolling in garbage, barking up an empty tree all night... But what do they do themselves? Bury stuff that will rot in secret and then dig it up and bury it again and rant and rave under empty trees! (Tove Jansson)

It's funny about paths and rivers," he mused. "You see them go by, and suddenly you feel upset and want to be somewhere else--wherever the path or the river is going, perhaps.

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Christmas always rustled. It rustled every time, mysteriously, with silver and gold paper, tissue paper and a rich abundance of shiny paper, decorating and hiding everything and giving a feeling of reckless extravagance.

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Sometimes it's better to look at things than own them... owning means anxiety and lots of bags to carry around.

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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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One makes a trip by day, but by night, one sets out on a journey.

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When one's dead, one's dead... This squirrel will become earth all in his time. And still later on, there'll grow new trees from him, with new squirrels skipping about in them. Do you think that's so very sad?

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I don't want to hear about them any more. I could vomit on the Moomintrolls.

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I love borders. August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know.

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One must use the night.

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Tove Jansson

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Occupation: Finnish Novelist
Born: August 9, 1914
Died: June 27, 2001
Quotes count: 45
Wikipedia: Tove Jansson

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