Peter Høeg Quotes

The motive for our actions doesn't lie ahead of us. It's something behind us that we're trying to escape.
Peter Høeg
There is a pleasant firmness of tone when one is in harmony with oneself. Even when it's a weak ethic one is resonating with.
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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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Every theoretical explanation is a reduction of intuition.
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Deep within every blind, absolute love grows a hatred toward the beloved, who now holds the only existing key to happiness
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We all try to camouflage the monotony, But it takes a lot of energy. To insist on being special all the time. When we're so much like one another anyway. Our triumphs are the same. Our pain. Try for a moment to feel what relief there is in the ordinary.
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... Because one who seeks the highest must not leave any path untried.
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No matter how close people get, they never reach each other. Including us now. Even now, there's a place where each of us is alone.
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Cantor illustrated the concept of infinity for his students by telling them that there was once a man who had a hotel with an infinite number of rooms, and the hotel was fully occupied. Then one more guest arrived. So the owner moved the guest in room number 1 into room number 2; the guest in room number 2 into number 3; the guest in 3 into room 4, and so on. In that way room number 1 became vacant for the new guest.What delights me about this story is that everyone involved, the guests and the owner, accept it as perfectly natural to carry out an infinite number of operations so that one guest can have peace and quiet in a room of his own. That is a great tribute to solitude.
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One can only ask to play as well as possible the notes one is given.
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One should be good to oneself. Especially when one is alone.
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Whining is a virus, a lethal, infectious, epidemic disease.
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Danes express their strongest feelings in conjunction with food. That became clear to me the first time I was out visiting friends with Moritz. When I took a third helping of cookies, he looked straight at me."Keep on taking until you're ashamed of yourself," he said.I wasn't confident about my Danish, but I understood what he meant. I helped myself three more times. Without taking my eyes off him. The room disappeared, the people we were visiting disappeared, I didn't taste the cookies. Only Moritz existed."I'm still not ashamed," I said.I helped myself three more times. Then he grabbed the platter and put it out of my reach. I had won. The first of a long series of small, important victories over him and Danish manners.
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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 figure 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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It may be necessary to stand on the outside of one is to see things clearly.
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Basker possesses three kinds of bite: a snap, a nip, and then something like a buzz saw and an angle grinder mounted on a bear trap.
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