Arto Paasilinna Quotes

#1. Sometimes life is truly woeful.

Arto Paasilinna

#2. I know there are no guarantees in love, in marriage, in life, in anything. But I want you anyway. I want you all the way. I want you exactly as you are.

Noelle Adams

#3. You've got to know how to howl to give yourself an escape route.

Arto Paasilinna

#4. My grandfather had come over as a member of the czarist army, to make an arms deal with the British government. Being a blinkered military man, he was unaware that the Russian Revolution was about to take place.

Helen Mirren

#5. Sometimes conceiving an affection for an animal is easier than for a human.

Arto Paasilinna

#6. There was once a bundle of matches, and they were frightfully proud because of their high origin. Their family tree, that is to say the great pine tree of which they were each a little splinter, had been the giant of the forest.

Hans Christian Andersen

#7. The pronunciation of both Sami and Portuguese languages is strikingly similar: the Portuguese evolved from folksy Latin while the Sami evolved from reindeers' howling.

Arto Paasilinna

#8. sometimes looking for the gold at the end of the rainbow, is like looking for the good in people

Gloria Garcia

#9. The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned with making a display than with living. Whoever feels observed observes himself.

Andre Gide

#10. One hand washes the other.

Seneca The Younger

#11. It is hard to teach an old dog to sit, as well as it is difficult to teach an old Laplandian rafter to swim.

Arto Paasilinna

#12. We feel too much. React too much. Say too much. Need too much. So says the world. Except the world is wrong.

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