8 Tove Jansson Quotes for You to Enjoy

Tove Jansson

Finnish Novelist

Born: Aug 9, 1914

Died: Jun 27, 2001

Christmas Every Everything People Time Will

Related authors: Charles Dickens Ernest Hemingway Gustave Flaubert James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Paulo Coelho Walter Scott

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 like to be if they dared to and what they really are. Tove Jansson

Theatre People World Important Dared Could Like Most House Sort Because The Most Important Where Wanted Really Shown

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

Life Time Natural People Dog Will Animals Garbage Tree Dig Trees Secret Biting Rant All Night Rave Stuff Empty Overlook Up Same Rolling Same Time Again Bury Burying Natural Life Fleas Themselves Then Barking Rot Night Bones

You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much. Tove Jansson

You Too Much Free Somebody Too Admire Much Really Ever

Dogs are mute and obedient, but they have watched us and know us and can smell how pitiful we are. Tove Jansson

Smell Obedient Mute Know How Dogs Pitiful Us Watched

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

Day Journey Sets Out Trip Makes Night

On the morning, Daddy and I get up at six o'clock because Christmas trees must be bought in the dark. We walk to the other end of town, as the big harbour is just the right setting for buying a Christmas tree. We spend hours choosing, looking at every branch suspiciously. It's always cold. Tove Jansson

Christmas Morning Dark Walk Looking Big Every Christmas Tree Tree Setting Cold Other Trees Spend Must Bought Town Hours Because Always End Up Branch Get Six Just Harbour Choosing Daddy Right Buying

Nothing is as peaceful as when Christmas is over, when one has been forgiven for everything and can be normal again. Tove Jansson

Christmas Nothing Everything Has-Been Over Been Normal Forgiven Again Peaceful

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