Peter Høeg Quotes

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• The knives in my apartment are only sharp enough to open envelopes with. Cutting a slice of coarse bread is on the borderline of their…
• The body's pain is so paper-thin and insignificant compared to that of the mind.
• The great systems that inform the world about the truth and life invariably claim to be absolutely truthful and well-balanced. In reality they are quaking…
• I like him. I have a weakness for losers. Invalids, foreigners, the fat boy of the class, the ones nobody ever wants to dance with.…
• He boils milk with fresh ginger, a quarter of a vanilla bean, and tea that is so dark and fine-leaved that it looks like black…
• There's a widespread notion that children are open, that the truth about their inner selves just seeps out of them. That's all wrong. No one…
• I don't fall in love anymore. Just like I don't get the mumps.
• When you're young, you think that sex is the culmination of intimacy. Later you discover that it's barely the beginning.
• There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language. At some…
• Grief is a gift, something you have to earn.
• Whining is a virus, a lethal, infectious, epidemic disease.
• I have sat in the dark and looked at them both, the child and the woman. And the feeling has become too much. It is…
• The problem with anger against God is that it's impossible to go higher in the system to complain.
• ..That's where we humans make a mistake. We don't see the utterly amazing when it comes to us disguised as the ordinary.
• Confronted with people who have power, and who enjoy using it, I turn into a different person, a baser and meaner one.
• There's a look of mischief in his eyes. 'Smilla. Why is it that such an elegant and petite girl like you has such a rough…
• When my mother didn't come back I realized that any moment could be the last. Nothing in life should simply be a passage from one…
• To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost.
• Maybe it's wrong when we remember breakthroughs to our own being as something that occurs in discrete, extraordinary moments. Maybe falling in love, the piercing…
• She was transparent, like a watercolor. As if she were about to dissolve in sound, in tones not yet created.

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