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.


Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel (ed. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010) - ISBN: 9781429998536

Peter Høeg Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...