Janne Teller Quotes

#1. The reason dying is so easy is because death has no meaning ... And the reason death has no meaning is because life has no meaning. All the same, have fun!
Pierre Anthon

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#2. But I was supposed to amount to something, be someone, so I stayed where I was and just looked the other way

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#3. Spring was nothing but a reminder to us that we, too, would soon be gone

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#4. Everything begins only to end. The moment you were born you began to die. That's how it is with everything.

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#5. The Nation State as such is totally a construction: what we feel for it in terms of habits, traditions, countryside or nature could exist without the notion of Nation.

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#6. From the moment we are born, we begin to die.

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#7. We knew that everything was more about how it appeared than how it was. The most important thing, in any circumstance, was to amount to something that really looked like it was something.

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#8. And although we'd sworn we'd never become like them, that was exactly what was happening. We weren't even fifteen yet.
Thirteen, fourteen, adult, dead.

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#9. We need to realise we are Europeans before we belong to a region or a Nation.

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#10. How come you girls want to be dating?.. First you fall in love, then you start dating, then you fall out of love, and then you split up again.
Pierre Anthon - to the author and Ursula-Marie

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#11. Suddenly I got shivers down my spine thinking about how many different people one and the same person can be.

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#12. Meaning is not something you can sell

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#13. We cried because we had lost something and gained something else. And because it hurt both losing and gaining. And because we knew what we had lost but weren't as yet able to put into words what it was we had gained.

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#14. Fighting's not a good idea, said Jon-Johan, and the other boys nodded, ending the discussion then and there, even though we girls probably lost some degree of respect for them on that occasion.

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#15. He must have gotten all that knowledge from the newspapers. I don't see the point, collecting all that knowledge others have already discovered.

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#16. How come everyone's making like everthing that isn't important is very important, all the while they're so busy pretending what's really important isn't important at all?

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#17. You go to school to get a job, and you get a job to take time off to do nothing. Why not do nothing to begin with?
Pierre Anthon

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#18. It's all a waste of time. Everything begins only to end. The moment you were born you began to die. That's how it is with everything.
Pierre Anthon

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#19. Even if you learn something and think you're good at it, there'll always be someone who's better.
Pierre Anthon

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