"When you're young, you think that sex is……" — Peter Høeg
"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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34 Quotes by Peter Høeg
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The body's pain is so paper-thin and insignificant compared to that of the mind.
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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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I don't fall in love anymore. Just like I don't get the mumps.
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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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The problem with anger against God is that it's impossible to go higher in the system to complain.
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