"The body's pain is so paper-thin and insignificant……" — Peter HÃ¸eg

"The body's pain is so paper-thin and insignificant compared to that of the mind."

— Peter HÃ¸eg

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34 Quotes by Peter HÃ¸eg

Peter HÃ¸eg has 34 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The knives in my apartment are only sharp enough to open envelopes with. Cutting a slice of coarse bread is…
The great systems that inform the world about the truth and life invariably claim to be absolutely truthful and well-balanced.…
I like him. I have a weakness for losers. Invalids, foreigners, the fat boy of the class, the ones nobody…
He boils milk with fresh ginger, a quarter of a vanilla bean, and tea that is so dark and fine-leaved…
There's a widespread notion that children are open, that the truth about their inner selves just seeps out of them.…
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,…
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…
The problem with anger against God is that it's impossible to go higher in the system to complain.

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure… — Aristotle
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine

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