"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."

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Tove Jansson

#Grandmother Quotes #Likes Quotes #Goes On Quotes

“If you know nothing, be pleased to know nothing.”
“No art is sunk in the self, but rather, in art the self becomes self-forgetful in order to meet the demands of the thing seen and the thing being made.”
“An ethic gone wrong is an essential preliminary to the sweat shop or the concentration camp and the death march.”

Source : Simon Blackburn (2003). “Ethics: A Very Short Introduction”, p.22, OUP Oxford
“The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change.”
“The stupidest thing that a writer can do is write a memoir I think, unless it's right before you die -- maybe.”
“Skills come with age, but wisdom, I doubt it very, very much.”
“It's not my duty as an architect to look at it”
“Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.”

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