Peter Høeg frases

• There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language. At some point understanding may come. It will always be wordless. The moment you grasp what is foreign, you will lose the urge to explain it. To explain a phenomenon is to distance yourself from it.

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  Distance, Moving, Understanding

  Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.222, Macmillan

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• Siento por la soledad lo mismo que algunas personas sienten por la bendición de la iglesia. Para mí es la luz de la gracia. Nunca cierro la puerta tras de mí sin ser consciente de que estoy llevando a cabo un acto de misericordia hacia mí mismo.

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  Single, Loneliness, Blessing

  Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.13, Macmillan

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

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  Want, Lost

  Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.40, Macmillan

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

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  Apoyar, Querer, Si

  Peter Høeg (2013). “Borderliners: A Novel”, p.52, Macmillan

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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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  Lying, Trying, Our Actions

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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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  Mistake, Ordinary, Humans

  Peter Høeg (2015). “The Quiet Girl”, p.175, Random House

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• Viajar tiende a magnificar todas las emociones humanas.

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  Inspiración, Viajes, Aventura

  Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.339, Macmillan

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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.

  Peter Høeg

  Pain, Special, Trying

  "The Quiet Girl". Book by Peter Høeg, 2006.

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• Cuando dejas la mente en blanco", dijo, "o cuando dejas de hablar durante mucho tiempo, algo ocurre. El tiempo se vuelve diferente. Se va. No vuelve hasta que empiezas a decir algo.

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  Talking, Long, Mind

  Peter Høeg (2013). “Borderliners: A Novel”, p.35, Macmillan

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

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  Depression, Pain, Mind

  Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.501, Macmillan

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• Los grandes sistemas que informan al mundo sobre la verdad y la vida pretenden invariablemente ser absolutamente veraces y equilibrados. En realidad son puentes temblorosos construidos a base de anhelos.

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  Reality, Bridges, Balance

  Peter Høeg (2013). “Tales of the Night”, p.309, Macmillan

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• Cuando mi madre no volvió me di cuenta de que cualquier momento podía ser el último. Nada en la vida debería ser simplemente un paso de un lugar a otro. Cada paseo debe tomarse como si fuera lo único que te queda. Puedes exigirte algo así como un ideal inalcanzable. Después, tienes que recordártelo cada vez que seas descuidado en algo. Para mí eso significa 250 veces al día.

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  Mother, Taken, Mean

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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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  Madre, Dos, Personas

  Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.316, Macmillan

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• Me cae bien. Tengo debilidad por los perdedores. Inválidos, extranjeros, el gordito de la clase, esos con los que nadie quiere bailar. Mi corazón late por ellos. Quizá porque siempre he sabido que, de algún modo, siempre seré uno de ellos.

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  Heart, Boys, Class

  Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.55, Macmillan

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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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  Sex, Thinking, Intimacy

  Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.450, Macmillan

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• ¿Sabes cuál es la expresión matemática del anhelo? ... Los números negativos. La formalización de la sensación de que te falta algo.

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  Expression, Numbers, Missing

  Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.131, Macmillan

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• El miedo por uno mismo, sobre el que uno puede hacer algo. Sobre él se puede encender la luz de la conciencia. Pero cuando uno ya no se preocupa por sí mismo, entonces surge el miedo por los demás y, después, por el mundo. No hay personas sin miedo, sólo momentos sin miedo.

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  Fear, Light, People

  Peter Høeg (2013). “Borderliners: A Novel”, p.21, Macmillan

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• The knives in my apartment are only sharp enough to open envelopes with. Cutting a slice of coarse bread is on the borderline of their ability. I don't need anything sharper. Otherwise, on bad days, it might easily occur to me that I could always go stand in the bathroom in front of the mirror and slit my throat. On such occasions it's nice to have the added security of needing to go downstairs and borrow a decent knife from a neighbor.

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  Nice, Suicidal, Bad Day

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• Falling in love has been greatly overrated. Falling in love consists of 45 percent fear of not being accepted, 45 percent manic hope that this time the fear will be put to shame and a modest 10 percent frail awareness of the possibility of love. I don't fall in love any more. Just like I don't get the mumps.

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  Falling In Love, Shame, Awareness

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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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  Complaining, Impossible, Problem

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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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  Karma, Lying, Differences

  Peter Høeg (2015). “The Quiet Girl”, p.59, Random House

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

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  Love Is, Appearance, Eternal

  Peter Høeg (2015). “The Quiet Girl”, p.285, Random House

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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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  Accepted, Sat, Indispensable

  Peter Høeg (2013). “Borderliners: A Novel”, p.156, Macmillan

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• I have sat in the dark and looked at them both, the child and the woman. And the feeling has become too much. It is not sorrow or joy; it is the weight and the pressure of having been brought into their lives, and of knowing that if one were ever to be separated from them, it would mean your obliteration.

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  Children, Mean, Dark

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• Grief is a gift, something you have to earn.

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  Grief, Spiritual Love

  Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.14, Macmillan

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