"..That's where we humans make a mistake. We……" — Peter Høeg
"..That's where we humans make a mistake. We don't see the utterly amazing when it comes to us disguised as the ordinary."
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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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