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Mika Toimi Waltariwas a Finnish writer, best known for his best-selling novel The Egyptian (Finnish: Sinuhe egyptilainen). He was extremely productive.
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About the Mika Waltari
Mika Toimi Waltariwas a Finnish writer, best known for his best-selling novel The Egyptian (Finnish: Sinuhe egyptilainen). He was extremely productive. Besides his novels he also wrote poetry, short stories, crime novels, plays, essays, travel stories, film scripts, and rhymed texts for comic strips by Asmo Alho.
4 Quotes by Mika Waltari
- 1.
During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come.
Mika WaltariFinnish writer
- 2.
So much is man the slave of his heart that he will shut his eyes to what does not please him and believe all that he hopes.
Mika WaltariFinnish writer
- 3.
A decision once taken brings peace to a man’s mind and eases his soul.
Mika WaltariFinnish writer
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So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.
Mika WaltariFinnish writer