Peter Høeg Short Quotes

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I have hydrophobia. But I know something about ice.

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If you want to support others you have to stay upright yourself.

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To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost.

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The body's pain is so paper-thin and insignificant compared to that of the mind.

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

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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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The motive for our actions doesn't lie ahead of us. It's something behind us that we're trying to escape.

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

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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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Never do I close my door behind me without being conscious that I am carrying out an act of charity towards myself.

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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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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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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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Time is no law of nature. It is a plan. When you look at it with awareness, or start to touch it, then it starts to disintegrate.

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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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Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing?... The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are missing something.

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Love has something to do with recognition, We can be fascinated by the unknown, we can be attracted by it, but love is something that grows, slowly, in an atmosphere of trust.

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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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Deep inside I know that trying to fathom things out leads to blindness, that the desire to understand has a built-in brutality that erases what you seek to comprehend. Only experience is sensitive.

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When you let your mind go blank,' he said, 'or when you stop talking for a long time, something happens. Time becomes different. It goes away. It doesn't come back until you start to say something.

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We sat there and I knew that this was how it felt to be totally accepted. You sit close to another person and are understood, everything is understood and nothing is judged and you are indispensable.

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