Peter Høeg - People Quotes

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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.

Peter Høeg
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.

Peter Høeg
Under certain circumstances the fateful decisions in life, sometimes even in matters of life and death, are made with an almost indifferent ease. While the little things-for instance, the way people hang on to what is over-seem so important.

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I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace for me. I never close my door behind me without the awareness that I am carrying out an act of mercy toward myself.

Peter Høeg
It's these small differences in people's karma that determine if we get up or remain lying on the ground.

Peter Høeg
People under thirty haven't yet stopped believing that something wonderful can suddenly happen.

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I've had the privilege of learning foreign languages. Instead of merely speaking a watered-down form of my mother tongue, like most people, I'm also helpless in two or three other languages.

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