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

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Source : Tove Jansson (2012). “The True Deceiver”, p.8, New York Review of Books

Tove Jansson

#Dog Quotes #Smell Quotes #Mute Quotes

“The word "freewill" (as also "self-determining power" [autexousiou] used by the Greek Fathers) does not occur in Scripture ... I Cor 7:37 does not mean freedom of the will.”
“The years in your life are less important than the life in your years.”
“I've been very careful about what I say yes to and what I say no to. And I think seriously always about... this may be a good idea right now or it may be a lot of money right now, but will it be good for me five years from now? Will it be fun? Will it make me hate myself? I think about all of those things.”
“Nothing is more important than a good education.”
“Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.”

Source : Preface (written 1918)
“Every now and then, a person must do something simply because he wants to, because it seems to him worth doing. And that does not make it worthless or a waste of time.”
“If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.”
“How does it feel to be seven thousand years old? That depends. On what? On how I want to feel.”

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