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I think about my editor when I write. She's a good friend, too.

I think about my editor when I write. She's a good friend, too.

Jostein Gaarder
Writing, Good Friend, Thinking

Perhaps the clock hands had become so tired of going in the same direction year after year that they had suddenly begun to go the opposite way instead.

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Tired, Hands, Years
Jostein Gaarder (1996). “The Christmas Mystery”, p.13, Macmillan

There is no order of things except in the human mind.

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Order, Mind, Humans

He could very likely have appealed for leniency. At least he could have saved his life by agreeing to leave Athens. But had he done this he would not have been Socrates. He valued his conscience--and the truth-- higher than life.

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Done, Athens, Leniency

If an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can't ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent.

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Children, Drawing, Pieces

The universe is a great mystery.

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Mystery, Universe

Love, your own witch-daughter, Queen of the Mirror and the Highest Protector of Irony

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Daughter, Queens, Love You
Jostein Gaarder (2010). “Sophie's World”, p.421, Hachette UK

Athens is like a sluggish horse, and I am the gadfly trying to sting it into life.

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Horse, Trying, Athens
Jostein Gaarder (2010). “Sophie's World”, p.64, Hachette UK

Socrates, whose mother was a midwife, used to say that his art was like the art of the midwife. She does not herself give birth to the child, but she is there to help during its delivery. Similarly, Socrates saw his task as helping people to 'give birth' to correct insight, since real understanding must come from within. . . . Everybody can grasp philosophical truths if they just use their innate reason.

Jostein Gaarder
Mother, Art, Children

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