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Tove Jansson Quotes

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Finnish Novelist, Writer August 9, 1914 – June 27, 2001

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''Just think, never to be glad or disappointed. Never to like anyone and get cross at him and forgive him. Never to sleep or feel cold, never to make a mistake and have a stomach-ache and be cured from it, never to have a birthday party, drink beer, and have a bad conscience...How terrible. Tove Jansson
Malander had an idea and was trying to work it out, but it would take him time. Sometimes people never saw things clearly until it was too late and they no longer had the strength to start again. Or else they forgot their idea along the way and didn't even realise that they forgotten. Tove Jansson
He read the classics, the French and the German among others, but primarily the Russian, which enchanted him with their heavy patience. Tove Jansson
Tove Jansson quote: "she counted out five sweets and put them on a saucer. Then she..."
she counted out five sweets and put them on a saucer. Then she went and put them on the ledge in the cliff to cheer him up. Tove Jansson

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