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“I need to write down my observations. Even the tiniest ones; they're the most important.”
Tove Jansson, Art in Nature
“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 in places you don't already know inside out. I want to put some life in you...”
Tove Jansson, Art in Nature
“He didn't remember, he didn't worry, he just was.”
Tove Jansson, Art in Nature
“I am fond of lovely old words like 'locomotive'.”
Tove Jansson, Art in Nature
“Before we left, Grandmother talked a lot about the arctic night we would fly through. 'Isn't it a mystical word, "arctic"? Pure and quite hard. And meridians. Isn't that pretty? We're going to fly along them, faster than the light can follow us... Time won't be able to catch us.”
Tove Jansson, Art in Nature
“He read the classics, the French and the German among others, but primarily the Russian, which enchanted him with their heavy patience.”
Tove Jansson, Art in Nature
“…дали да живее възможно най-истински, или за някаква кауза, дали да си отстоява правата, или да си мълчи, дали да се опита да види колкото се може повече и да бъде отворен към света, или пък някак да се взре в себе си…”
Tove Jansson, Art in Nature
“Не изпадаше в спомени, не се тревожеше, просто съществуваше.”
Tove Jansson, Art in Nature
“The caretaker liked the evenings and the nights. He didn't need much sleep and often sat by himself in the peace and quiet of the lake shore for hours. He didn't remember, he didn't worry, he just was.”
Tove Jansson, Art in Nature
“Заобикаляше я ореол от непринудена аморалност, точно както блатото люлее в обятията си водната лилия, винаги неопетнена.”
Tove Jansson, Art in Nature
“is that they come up with so many ideas and then they manage to carry them out and believe so strongly in what they do.”
Tove Jansson, Art in Nature: and other stories
“…той не можеше да отказва. И в крайна сметка прегоря.”
Tove Jansson, Art in Nature
“Живописта се ражда само от свежата, остра болка...”
Tove Jansson, Art in Nature
“Вечно не знаете вие, ти и Майла. Криете се от всичко и казвате, че не знаете. Много е лесно така.”
Tove Jansson, Art in Nature
“Сега сме американски щат и никой не може да свири, танцува и пее, освен ако не се намира на сцена, ама тогава ще трябва да мисли за данъци и проценти. И никой няма право да се разголва по улиците, освен ако не е турист.”
Tove Jansson, Art in Nature
“…в известен смисъл идеята му беше хубава, такава една простичка и почтена.”
Tove Jansson, Art in Nature
“Той винаги поглеждаше да види какви са по-нагоре притежателите на стари обувки.”
Tove Jansson, Art in Nature
“Винаги съм имал слабост към хора, които проявяват жив интерес, като при това не се пречкат.”
Tove Jansson, Art in Nature