The problem with anger against God is that it's impossible to go higher in the system to complain.

Peter Høeg


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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.

Peter Høeg


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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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Confronted with people who have power, and who enjoy using it, I turn into a different person, a baser and meaner one.

Peter Høeg


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There's a look of mischief in his eyes. 'Smilla. Why is it that such an elegant and petite girl like you has such a rough voice.'
I'm sorry,' I say, 'if I give you the impression that it is only my mouth that's rough. I do my best to be rough all over.

Peter Høeg

Tags: buio notte



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In ten years they would be dead, deported or in leadership positions.

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When my mother didn't come back I realized that any moment could be the last. Nothing in life should simply be a passage from one place to another. Each walk should be taken as if it is the only thing you have left. You can demand something like this of yourself as an unattainable ideal. After that, you have to remind yourself about it every time you're sloppy about something. For me that means 250 times a day.

Peter Høeg

Tags: happiness



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Insgeheim wächst in jeder blinden, kopflosen Verliebtheit der Hass auf den Geliebten, der den einzigen Schlüssel zum Glück besitzt.

Peter Høeg

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

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Tags: lost loss understand recapture



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On closer examination, we are simply a banal tragedy spread over two generations.

Peter Høeg

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