Author of quotes: Tove Jansson

And my dog is big, beautiful, obedient. He does not love me. We just respect each other. I respect his secret life, I respect the mystery that is characteristic of large dogs that have retained a particle of natural wildness and rebelliousness, but I have no confidence in them. And as soon as some decide to trust the huge guard dogs, they say that, they say, the actions of these animals are downright human, that is, noble and admirable. The dog is dumb and obedient, but having studied us, and understood, and guessed our misery, we should be horrified, alarmed, dumbfounded in the face of the incredible - because our dogs do not go anywhere and remain obedient. Maybe they despise us. Maybe they forgive. Or maybe they are glad that there is no demand from them. We will never know. Maybe they see us as some kind of unfortunate tribe of hunchbacked, lopsided freaks, huge clumsy insects. Not gods at all. Dogs have clearly figured us out and comprehended our nature to the subtlety - only millennia of humility keep them in check. Why is no man afraid of his dog? How long can a wild beast subdue his savagery? People idealize dogs and, at the same time, condescendingly “tolerate” their natural actions - how they bite fleas, bury a rotten bone, wallow in the mud, bark at some tree all night long ... But what do people themselves do - secretly bury any rotten, dig up they hide him again, and they tear his throat under the trees, and they wallow in what ... No. Me and my dog despise them. We took refuge in our special secret life, buried ourselves in the innermost wildness ...

There is nothing calmer and boundless than the long winter haze, it drags on and on, and life passes as if in a dungeon, where this haze either thickens into the night, then slightly thins, and then the dusk of the day comes, you are fenced off from everything, securely sheltered and even more so. lonely than ever.

Sometimes all you have to do to calm someone down is to remind them that you are there.

In this world there is a place for absolutely everything. The lack of common sense intertwined with iron logic. There is in this something from surrealism, from dreams, from the reality of each day in his fantastic frame...

Bluntly, if you want to be understood.

To Mumi-Dol comes cool autumn, and so it is necessary because without it, there is a new spring.

Milk, rose, brioche and berries - the best way to celebrate the return of anyone home.

In order for something to believe, not necessarily know if it's true.

It is equally important to know two things: how to be alone, and how to be with others.

Always warmly greet all those who enter your home.

This is totally unnecessary. But, perhaps, not hurt.

Sometimes, for afternoon tea, with me comes a strange feeling that I don't exist.

If someone doesn't know what "retire", then you can explain what it means to do in peace and quiet just what you want, but only then you have to be old enough.

Punishment is not the only way to get someone to behave.