Jostein Gaarder Quotes

But she’d managed to find her way into our reality, perhaps because she had an important mission here, perhaps because she was here to save us from what people call the monotony of life.

Jostein Gaarder

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• But she’d managed to find her way into our reality, perhaps because she had an important mission here, perhaps because she was here to save us from what people call the monotony of life.

  

  Jostein Gaarder
  • Reality
  • Mission
  • Monotony Of Life