When one’s dead, one’s dead… This squirrel will become earth all in his time. And still later on, there’ll grow new trees from him, with new squirrels skipping about in them. Do you think that’s so very sad? — Tove Jansson

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Mini who’s who:

Tove Jansson : Finnish Novelist
Born:  August 9, 1914
Died:  June 27, 2001