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

Peter HÃ¸eg

#Karma Quotes #Lying Quotes #Differences Quotes

“I think one thing I've learned, as dorky and obvious as this sounds: People who like cool books are usually really cool people.”

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“There is no way to live up to your full potential in life without losing lots of things. Yet there are people who believe you can go through a lifetime without losing anything, if you would just be more careful and more thoughtful. They actually believe that a child can get through elementary school without losing a jacket, but that's impossible unless the child is very repressed.”
“No amount of money could make me play for Liverpool, that isn't disrespect to Liverpool or their fans, it's respect for Everton”
“Not bodies produce sensations, but element-complexes (sensation-complexes) constitute the bodies. When the physicist considers the bodies as the permanent reality, the `elements' as the transient appearance, he does not realise that all `bodies' are only mental symbols for element-complexes (sensation-complexes”
“It's a power that I can't explain. As it flows and it grows and it shapes my faith. There've been hundreds of moments I can't deny. When it brushe against the fire or dwelt in the Fire of God.”
“Usually the woman has an appointment with destiny, and the man just happens to be there.”
“Even as I've become more reticent about the political possibilities of the academic space, I want to note that students have played significant roles in insurrectionary activity across the globe for decades and centuries, and I don't think that we've crossed some threshold where that's never going to happen again. We still need to take the university space quite seriously.”
“If I had some information, the last thing I would ever do with it is send it to Wikileaks.”

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