“It is still summer, but the summer is no longer alive. It has come to a standstill; nothing withers, and fall is not ready to begin. There are no stars yet, just darkness.”

— Tove Jansson, book The Summer Book

Source: The Summer Book

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Finnish children's writer and illustrator 1914–2001

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