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

Peter HÃ¸eg

#Distance Quotes #Moving Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“Even my parents are so cute, and they deal with every movie of mine excellently. They check with me ever so casually by asking 'Now how much of nudity are we going to see in this one?”
“To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible.”
“Listening is active. It's like vision. It's like the idea of the eye projecting light, which I've heard is what children and infants say when they're asked to explain vision - that the eye projects light, rather than just receives it.”

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“Man is no man, but a wolf”
“All of the muscles were gone, so that was a real tough time of rebuilding all of that. But you have a deadline, you have an obligation. You've said that you will commit to this part, and I just can't live with myself for not really giving it as much as I can.”
“I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend . . . asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sight-it's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else.”
“I donâ€™t know; I still like the name Six. Maren Elizabeth was when I was a different person, and right now Six just feels right. It can be short for something if someone asks.â€ Sam looks over. â€œFor what? Sixty?”
“A problem only becomes a problem when we choose to see it as a problem”

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