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If you want to support others you have to stay upright yourself. — Peter Hoeg

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

Fermat wrote in the margin: "I've discovered a truly wonderful proof for this argument. Unfortunately, this margin is too narrow to contain it." Two — Peter Hoeg

When you're young, you think that sex is the culmination of intimacy. Later you discover that it's barely the beginning. — Peter Hoeg

It's the kind of day that might make you wonder about the meaning of life, and discover that there is none. — Peter Hoeg

The flakes are the size of tiny feathers, and that's the way snow is, it's not necessarily cold. — Peter Hoeg

No person can open another person, All we can do is wait. And then work with the openness when it occur.s. — Peter Hoeg

I've always enjoyed cleaning. Even though they tried to teach us laziness in school. — Peter Hoeg

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. — Peter Hoeg

Some thoughts have glue on them.----Smilla — Peter Hoeg

One should be good to oneself. Especially when one is alone. — Peter Hoeg

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 Hoeg

No one who has lived side by side with animals that have plenty of room can ever visit the zoo. — Peter Hoeg

Perhaps it's true that love is eternal. But it's appearance changes all the time. — Peter Hoeg

The child had wanted attention. She had just asked to be noticed. But she was given an assessment. 'What a clever girl! — Peter Hoeg

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. — Peter Hoeg

Maybe a person can be born to the wrong people," he said. "Maybe a person should have been put somewhere else. — Peter Hoeg

Those who understand such things say that the two partners must always assist each other if a relationship is truly to founder and turn into flotsam. — Peter Hoeg Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow

She was transparent, like a watercolor. As if she were about to dissolve in sound, in tones not yet created. — Peter Hoeg

If you want to know who the real heroes of world history are, just look at the mothers. — Peter Hoeg

There's no simple aritmetic for life's distribution of happiness and sorrow, no such thing as a standard share. — Peter Hoeg Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow

The greatest performances where when fingertips took away a very thin veil between people and uncovered the universe in its entirety. — Peter Hoeg

There can be great depths of love that are not reciprocated. — Peter Hoeg

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

One can only ask to play as well as possible the notes one is given. — Peter Hoeg

It may be necessary to stand on the outside of one is to see things clearly. — Peter Hoeg

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. — Peter Hoeg

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

Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions. — Peter Hoeg

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

Nothing corrupts like happiness. It makes us think that since we share this moment, we can also share the past. — Peter Hoeg

When people are going to be taken from you anyway, then it would be better if you had never come to care for them. — Peter Hoeg

Grief is a gift, something you have to earn. — Peter Hoeg

The cookies combine butter and spices in such a way that you could eat a hundred of them and only realize how sick you are after it's too late. — Peter Hoeg

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. — Peter Hoeg Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow

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

Deep within every blind, absolute love grows a hatred toward the beloved, who now holds the only existing key to happiness — Peter Hoeg

Reading snow is like listening to music. To describe what you've read is like explaining music in writing. — Peter Hoeg

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

Every theoretical explanation is a reduction of intuition. — Peter Hoeg

There's nothing under the sun as grotesque as cold European courtesy manifested in the third and fourth worlds. — Peter Hoeg

Whining is a virus, a lethal, infectious, epidemic disease. — Peter Hoeg

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

She looked at him. As if she wanted to determine his molecular weight. — Peter Hoeg

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

We who are profoundly joined in soul can only but heal the ruptures of the cosmos. — Peter Hoeg

Because one who seeks the highest must not leave any path untried. — Peter Hoeg

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

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

Hat's where we humans make a mistake. We don't see the utterly amazing when it comes to us disguised as the ordinary. — Peter Hoeg

Some girls are fortunate enough to be in love with deep and intelligent boys," she says. "And then there's the rest of us, who have to make do. — Peter Hoeg