"Confronted with people who have power, and who……" — Peter Høeg
"Confronted with people who have power, and who enjoy using it, I turn into a different person, a baser and meaner one."
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34 Quotes by Peter Høeg
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The knives in my apartment are only sharp enough to open envelopes with. Cutting a slice of coarse bread is…
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The body's pain is so paper-thin and insignificant compared to that of the mind.
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The great systems that inform the world about the truth and life invariably claim to be absolutely truthful and well-balanced.…
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I like him. I have a weakness for losers. Invalids, foreigners, the fat boy of the class, the ones nobody…
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He boils milk with fresh ginger, a quarter of a vanilla bean, and tea that is so dark and fine-leaved…
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There's a widespread notion that children are open, that the truth about their inner selves just seeps out of them.…
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I don't fall in love anymore. Just like I don't get the mumps.
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When you're young, you think that sex is the culmination of intimacy. Later you discover that it's barely the beginning.
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There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest,…
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Grief is a gift, something you have to earn.
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Whining is a virus, a lethal, infectious, epidemic disease.
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I have sat in the dark and looked at them both, the child and the woman. And the feeling has…
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Satan had two conditions [to his plan]: the first was the denial of agency, and the second, that he would…
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For Nature is accustomed to rehearse with certain large, perhaps baser, and all classes of wild (animals), and to place…
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Let us subdue the ravages of the baser-self, and aspire to the higher calling of exalting joy through compassion, for…
— Bryant H. McGill
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It is no small advantage to the holy life to "begin the day with God." The saints are wont to…
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Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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We have taught our people to use prayer too much as a means of comfort - not in the original…
— Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy
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Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser…
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You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of…
— T.H. White
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We may not have demon fathers dangling offers of infernal power before us, but everyone understands what it means to…
— Jacqueline Carey
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Th' ethereal mould Incapable of stain would soon expel Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire, Victorious. Thus repuls'd,…
— John Milton
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Try vegetarianism and you will be surprised: meditation becomes far easier. Love becomes more subtle, loses its grossness - becomes…
— Rajneesh
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