“A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world, because that's where people are shown what they could be if they wanted, and what they'd like to be if they dared to and what they really are”

— Tove Jansson , book Moominsummer Madness

Source: Moominsummer Madness

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Finnish children's writer and illustrator 1914–2001

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