“To touch time. That, I suppose, is what life for me has been about since then.” — Peter Høeg Life Copy Share Image
“... Because one who seeks the highest must not leave any path untried.” — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
“I'll come, you'll see,' I said. I knew it was a lie, she knew it, too.” — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
Perhaps it's true that love is eternal. But it's appearance changes all the time. — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
Never do I close my door behind me without being conscious that I am carrying out an act of charity towards myself. — Peter Høeg Acts of charity Copy Share Image
“Nature is not a straitjacket that must be burst open. Nature is a blessing, an opportunity for growth that has been bestowed… — Peter Høeg Living things Copy Share Image
“I've always enjoyed cleaning. Even though they tried to teach us laziness in school.” — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
“There's no simple aritmetic for life's distribution of happiness and sorrow, no such thing as a standard share.” — Peter Høeg Happiness Copy Share Image
“Some girls are fortunate enough to be in love with deep and intelligent boys," she says. "And then there's the rest of… — Peter Høeg Girls Copy Share Image
“So it is not fundamentally possible to be alone. Fundamentally, man has to be with other people. If man becomes totally, totally… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
When you're young, you think that sex is the culmination of intimacy. Later you discover that it's barely the beginning. — Peter Høeg Culmination Copy Share Image
“The greatest performances where when fingertips took away a very thin veil between people and uncovered the universe in its entirety.” — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
“As far as I'm concerned, you could send all the cars in the world through a compactor and shoot them out through… — Peter Høeg Mars Copy Share Image
The great systems that inform the world about the truth and life invariably claim to be absolutely truthful and well-balanced. In reality… — Peter Høeg Balance Copy Share Image
“With age I have voluntarily chosen certain limitations. I don't have the energy to start over again. To learn new skills or… — Peter Høeg Aging Copy Share Image
“Det var ikke en rituell prognose, som et bryllupsløfte eller et nyttårsforsett. Det var en edsavleggelse av et slag Madelene ikke hadde… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the… — Peter Høeg Culture Copy Share Image
“programs in Grenå. And finally, in a different direction altogether, if you asked the residents of Big Hill, which is a rehab… — Peter Høeg Wine Copy Share Image
“If you remember,” he said, “and have a past, then you can be given the blame and be punished. See – if… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
“That was what we meant by science. That both question and answer are tied up with uncertainty, and that they are painful.… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
“I saw how pure, in a way, they were – no matter what they had done. Each in their own way they… — Peter Høeg Life Copy Share Image
“I don't know if you're in love with someone. If you're not, there's something I would like to say to you, and… — Peter Høeg Fifteen years Copy Share Image
“You draw something...and you get nothing. The you do the same thing again, but this time you get a star and are… — Peter Høeg Artist Copy Share Image
“The regularity of the clock was a metaphor for the accuracy of the universe. For the accuracy of God's creative achievement. So… — Peter Høeg Art Copy Share Image
“Falling in love has been greatly overrated. Falling in love consists of forty-five per cent fear of not being accepted and forty-five… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
There's a widespread notion that children are open, that the truth about their inner selves just seeps out of them. That's all… — Peter Høeg Child Copy Share Image
“So the [Binet-Simon]test results were always related to time. Thereby producing a new figure -- a measurement of intelligence. A calculated figure,and… — Peter Høeg Time Copy Share Image
When my mother didn't come back I realized that any moment could be the last. Nothing in life should simply be a… — Peter Høeg Demand Copy Share Image
“Now I will say it. What I, personally, believe about time. To sense time, to speak about time you have to sense… — Peter Høeg Beginnings and endings Copy Share Image
“She said she had been thinking about the way you remembered your past. What you remembered, she said, was a string of… — Peter Høeg Early childhood Copy Share Image
“The child had wanted attention. She had just asked to be noticed. But she was given an assessment. 'What a clever girl!” — Peter Høeg Children Copy Share Image
“Maybe a person can be born to the wrong people,” he said. “Maybe a person should have been put somewhere else.” — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
“We who are profoundly joined in soul can only but heal the ruptures of the cosmos.” — Peter Høeg Astronomy Copy Share Image
“Deep within every blind, absolute love grows a hatred toward the beloved, who now holds the only existing key to happiness” — Peter Høeg Absolute love Copy Share Image
..That's where we humans make a mistake. We don't see the utterly amazing when it comes to us disguised as the ordinary. — Peter Høeg Failure Copy Share Image
She was transparent, like a watercolor. As if she were about to dissolve in sound, in tones not yet created. — Peter Høeg Sound Copy Share Image
“No person can open another person, All we can do is wait. And then work with the openness when it occur.s.” — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
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