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„Maybe my passion is nothing special, but at least it’s mine.“
„Everything’s much too big here,’ thought Moominmamma. ‘Or perhaps I’m too small.“
„There are those who stay at home and those who go away, and it has always been so. Everyone can choose for himself, but he must choose while there is still time and never change his mind.“
„I only want to live in peace, plant potatoes and dream!“
„There’s no need to imagine that you’re a wondrous beauty, because that’s what you are.“
„Lie on the bridge and watch the water flowing past. Or run, or wade through the swamp in your red boots. Or roll yourself up and listen to the rain falling on the roof. It’s very easy to enjoy yourself.“
„It’s funny about love’, Sophia said. ‘The more you love someone, the less he likes you back.”That’s very true,’ Grandmother observed. ‘And so what do you do?”You go on loving,’ said Sophia threateningly. ‘You love harder and harder.“
„Most of the people are homesick anyway, and a little lonely, and they hide themselves in their hair and are turned into flowers.“
„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.“
„It’s only the sea,’ said Moomintroll. ‘Every wave that dies on the beach sings a little song to a shell. But you mustn’t go inside because it’s a labyrinth and you may never come out again.“
„The thing about God, she thought, is that He usually does help, but not until you’ve made an effort on your own.“
„You can’t ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.“
„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.“
„… now and then a giggling trail of mermaids appeared in our wake. We fed them oatmeal.“
„Making a journey by night is more wonderful than anything in the world.“
„I need to write down my observations. Even the tiniest ones; they’re the most important.“
„Gathering is peculiar, because you see nothing but what you’re looking for. If you’re picking raspberries, you see only what’s red, and if you’re looking for bones you see only the white. No matter where you go, the only thing you see is bones.“
„It is still summer, but the summer is no longer alive. It has come to a standstill; nothing withers, and fall is not ready to begin. There are no stars yet, just darkness.“
„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.“
„A person can find anything if he takes the time, that is, if he can afford to look. And while he’s looking, he’s free, and he finds things he never expected.“
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