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

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

Peter HÃ¸eg

#Depression Quotes #Pain Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Nobody understands me, I'm really sensitive.”

Source : "Iggy's Trail of Destruction". Rolling Stone Interview, November 19, 2003.
“That's how you win - pitching and defense.”
“One objection I have heard voiced to works of this kindÂ—dealing with TexasÂ—is the amount of gore spilled across the pages. It can not be otherwise. In order to write a realistic and true history of any part of the Southwest, one must narrate such things, even at the risk of monotony.”
“The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.”
“Measurements, observations, descriptions can only be considered scientific when they are independently confirmed by other people.”
“People are gonna look up to me because I'm young, black, and female.”
“Education in the art of dance is education of the whole man âˆ’ his physical, mental and emotional natures are disciplined and nourished simultaneously in dance.”
“How do popular attitudes get formed? Do the movies just reflect it or inform it? Where does this particular idea come from? I don't know if I can say anything too illuminating.”

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