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Marianne Fredriksson Biography

Marianne Fredriksson, née Persson (March 28, 1927 in Gothenburg – February 11, 2007 in Österskär) was a Swedish author who worked and lived in Roslagen and Stockholm. Before becoming a novelist, she was a journalist for various Swedish newspapers and magazines, including Svenska Dagbladet.

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When our patterns are threatened by new facts, reason is seldom the victor: 'I know what I think, so don't go confusing me with new opinions.

Thinking, Confusing, Patterns, Facts

The mind can ask all the questions on the meaning of life. But it cannot answer one of them, for the answers are beyond the mind.

Mind, Meaning Of Life, Answers, Meaning, Ask

I recognized everything, the waterfall and the lakes, the trees and paths. But they had forgotten me. That was bitter and I cried a lot. One should never return to sacred places.

Bitter, Cried, Lakes, Sacred, Tree, Trees

The years came and went, the children came and left. The worst of getting old is not tiredness and aches and pains, but that time rushes on so quickly, that in the end it doesn't seem to exist. It's Christmas and then it's Easter. It's a clear winter's day and then a hot summer's day. In between it's a vacuum.

Children, Christmas, Day, Easter, Pains, Summer

Dreams burst like bubbles in the wind. But change takes time. When people fall in love and lose the overwhelming desire for it to last a lifetime,they think something is wrong with them. Only now,when every other marriage ends in divorce,have people begun to understand that falling in love seldom grows into love,and that not even love can free a person from loneliness. And that sexual enjoyment does not make life meaningful.

Dream, Fall, Falling In Love, Meaningful, Person, Takes

She had realized there are only fragments, that 'memories' always consist of fragments the mind puts together into a pattern, adapts a picture staked out early without the need for a conenction with anything that really happened. A great deal is misunderstood by small children, then stored as images that attract similar images, confirming and reinforcing.

Children, Memories, Misunderstood, Similar, Together

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