"I wish I could lay down beside her and die too."

-- John Adams

“It's true; I'm fascinated by elite groups.”
“Faces in the everyday impress us as hives of subtlety. That impression must be sharpened in photography, which discloses only a microsecond of the face's behaviour, immersed in a social process.”
“Let my muse Fail of thy former helps, and only use Her inadulterate strength. What's done by me Hereafter shall smell of the lamp, not thee.”
“If you're interested in the door to the heavens opening, start with the door to your own secret self.”
“Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing? ... The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are missing something.”

Source : Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.131, Macmillan
“The European public has always been great to me.”
“Basic research is like shooting an arrow in the air and, where it lands, painting a target.”
“Everything vanishes round me and good works rise from me of their own accord.”

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