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The body's pain is so paper-thin and insignificant compared to that of the mind.
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There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language. At some point understanding may come. It will always be wordless. The moment you grasp what is foreign, you will lose the urge to explain it. To explain a phenomenon is to distance yourself from it.
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Reading snow is like listening to music. To describe what you've read is to try to explain music in writing.
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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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He boils milk with fresh ginger, a quarter of a vanilla bean, and tea that is so dark and fine-leaved that it looks like black dust. He strains it and puts cane sugar in both our cups. There's something euphorically invigorating and yet filling about it. It tastes the way I imagine the Far East must taste.
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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 with. My heart beats for them. Maybe because I've always known that in some way I will forever be one of them.
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We think there are limits to the dimensions of fear. Until we encounter the unknown. Then we can all feel boundless amounts of terror.
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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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The fear for oneself, that one can do something about. Upon it one can turn the light of awareness. But when one is no longer worrying about oneself, then the fear comes for other people and, after that, for the world. There are no fearless people, only fearless moments.
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If you want to support others you have to stay upright yourself.
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Those who were on the inside, the majority that is, for them it had been hard to get his point, mostly they were just pleased that they were on the inside, that they were the fittest. For those on the outside, the fear and abandonment amounts to almost everything; everybody knows that. Understanding is something one does best when one is on the borderline.
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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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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
George Santayana
Peter Høeg
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Born:
May 17, 1957
(age 66)
Bio:
Peter Høeg is a Danish writer of fiction.
Known for:
Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow (1992)
Borderliners (1993)
Den stille pige (2006)
The Elephant Keepers' Children (2012)
The Woman and the Ape (1996)
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