To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost.
("Smilla's Sense of Snow")
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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.Peter Høeg
I've always enjoyed cleaning. Even though they tried to teach us laziness in school.
Peter Høeg
Maybe it's wrong when we remember breakthroughs to our own being as something that occurs in discrete, extraordinary moments. Maybe falling in love, the piercing knowledge that we ourselves will someday die, and the love of snow are in reality not some sudden events; maybe they were always present. Maybe they never completely vanish, either.
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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
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
As far as I'm concerned, you could send all the cars in the world through a compactor and shoot them out through the stratosphere and put them in orbit around Mars. Except, of course, the taxis that have to be at my disposal when I need them.
Peter Høeg
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