“But sorrow can also be contagious. Fear is different. It isn't as communicable as laughter or sadness, and a good thing too. Fear is almost entirely a lonely thing.”
“But sorrow can also be contagious. Fear is different. It isn't as communicable as laughter or sadness, and a good thing too. Fear is almost entirely a lonely thing.”
Jostein Gaarder
“I've nothing against eye make-up and lipstick. But the fact is that we’re actually living on a planet in space. For me that’s an extraordinary thought. It’s mind-boggling just to think about the existence of space at all. But there are girls who can’t see the universe for eye liner.”
Jostein Gaarder, The Orange Girl“She sent me a sunny smile, and what a smile, George; it was a smile that could have melted the whole world, because if the whole world had seen it, it would have had the power to stop all wars and hatred on the face of the planet, or at lease there would have been some long ceasefires.”
Jostein Gaarder, The Orange Girl“I can wait until my heart bleeds with sorrow.”
Jostein Gaarder, The Orange Girl“We are the universe.”
Jostein Gaarder, The Orange Girl“But what is a person, George? How much is a person worth? Are we nothing but dust that is whipped up and spread to the winds?”
Jostein Gaarder, The Orange Girl“The truth is that I feel like a ghost already, and I have to catch my breath each time I think about it. I begin to understand why ghosts go in for so much sighing and hooting. It's not to scare their descendants. It's just that they find it so hard to breathe in a time other than their own.We don't only have a place in existence. We also have an allotted span.That's the way things are, and all I can do is extrapolate from what's around me now.”
Jostein Gaarder, The Orange Girl“Although I've always been easily led by my imagination, I was, and I remain, a rational person.”
Jostein Gaarder, The Orange Girl“Look at the world, Georg, look at the world before you've filled yourself with too much physics and chemistry.”
Jostein Gaarder, The Orange Girl“I no longer feel the need to see and sense more than I've already experienced. I just want so desperately to hang on what I have.”
Jostein Gaarder, The Orange Girl“But sorrow can also be contagious. Fear is different. It isn't as communicable as laughter or sadness, and a good thing too. Fear is almost entirely a lonely thing.”
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