Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing?. . . The negative numbers. The formalization of … - Peter Høeg

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We need to teach people to refuse to install non-free plug-ins; we need to teach people to care more about their long-term interest of freedom than their immediate desire to view a particular site.

Peter Høeg

Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing?. . . The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are missing something.

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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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Confronted with people who have power, and who enjoy using it, I turn into a different person, a baser and meaner one.

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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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Maybe it's wrong when we remember breakthroughs to our own being as something that occurs in discrete, extraordinary moments. Maybe falling in love, the piercing knowledge that we ourselves will someday die, and the love of snow are in reality not some sudden events; maybe they were always present. Maybe they never completely vanish, either.

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She was transparent, like a watercolor. As if she were about to dissolve in sound, in tones not yet created.

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