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Happiness Quote by Peter Høeg

“There's no simple aritmetic for life's distribution of happiness and sorrow, no such thing as a standard share.” quote by Peter Høeg — Download Open image

““There's no simple aritmetic for life's distribution of happiness and sorrow, no such thing as a standard share.””

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“Time is something you have to hold on to.”

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“With age I have voluntarily chosen certain limitations. I don't have the energy to start over again. To learn new skills or fight my…

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“That was the way of the rule. They had so many to keep an eye on. As long as you kept a low profile,…

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“That was what we meant by science. That both question and answer are tied up with uncertainty, and that they are painful. But that…

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I like him. I have a weakness for losers. Invalids, foreigners, the fat boy of the class, the ones nobody ever wants to dance…

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“She said she had been thinking about the way you remembered your past. What you remembered, she said, was a string of events and years stretching back from the point where you now found yourself. In other words, a line of time. This might be coloured differently, depending upon what had happened to you. For example, if you had lost…

“The cookies combine butter and spices in such a way that you could eat a hundred of them and only realize how sick you…

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It's these small differences in people's karma that determine if we get up or remain lying on the ground.

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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…

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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 place to another. Each walk should be taken as if it is the only thing you have left. You can demand something like this of yourself as an unattainable ideal. After that, you have to…

She was transparent, like a watercolor. As if she were about to dissolve in sound, in tones not yet created.

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“It was beautiful. He thought he had never seen anything so beautiful in all his life; that, having seen it, he could die content, knowing that he would never see anything so beautiful again. He wished he could have seen it for longer. More, he wished he could have taken it apart, studied it all the way down to its…

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