"You must go on a long journey before you can really find out how wonderful home is."

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Source : Tove Jansson (2014). “Comet in Moominland: Can Moomintroll save his beloved valley?”, p.99, Macmillan

Tove Jansson

#Home Quotes #Journey Quotes #Long Quotes

“All the stream that's roaring by Came out of a needle's eye....”
“The only person I can count on is myself. It's up to me to create the life I want. I can't blame my parents or Scott or anyone else for the way things are.”
“I don't ever want to stop learning. And I really want to learn French fluently. It would be great to go and live in France.”
“You can always make a film somehow. You can beg, borrow, steal the equipment, use credit cards, use your friends' goodwill, wheedle your way into this or that situation. The real problem is, how do you get people to see it once it is made?”

Source : Interview with Michael Wohl, www.peachpit.com. November 1, 2001.
“There's more than just racism. There's ageism and sexism as well.”

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“We pursue that which retreats from us.”
“But what the working-class can do, when once they grow into a solidified organization, is to show the possessing class, through a sudden cessation of all work, that the whole social structure rests on them; that the possessions of the others are absolutely worthless to them without the workers' activity; that such protests, such strikes, are inherent in the system of property and will continually recur until the whole thing is abolished -- and having shown that effectively, proceed to expropriate.”
“When I came to North America, it was hard. It was hard to understand, hard to get someone to understand me. I only knew Russian. I studied French in school, but it didn't help. I forgot most of that.”

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