Occupation: Novelist Birth: August 9, 1914 Death: June 27, 2001
Someone who eats pancakes and jam can't be so awfully dangerous. You can talk to him..
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 ….
My bag was as light as my happy-go-lucky heart..
Maybe my passion is nothing special, but at least it's mine..
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 f….
You must go on a long journey before you can really find out how wonderful home is..
One has to discover everything for oneself. And get over it all alone..
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 a….
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….
Anyway, solitary people interest me. There are so many different ways of being solitary.' 'I know just what you mean,' said X. 'I know exactly what y….
One makes a trip by day, but by night one sets out on a journey..
I want your first trip to be with me. I want to show you cities and landscapes and teach you how to look at things in new ways and how to get along i….
''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 mak….
I love borders. August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know. Twilight is the border between day and night, ….
It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent—lose your invaluable curiosity and you let yourself die. It's as simple a….
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 lab….
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 th….
Storms probably exist only because after them we can have a sunrise..
A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world, because that's where people are shown what they could be if they wanted, and what they'd ….
All things are so very uncertain, and that's exactly what makes me feel reassured..
You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much..