I've had the privilege of learning foreign languages. Instead of merely speaking a watered-down form of my mother … - Peter Høeg

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A Creator is vision-focused and passion-motivated. To really live into your Creator self, you are called to do the inner work necessary to find your own sense of purpose-whatever touches your heart and holds meaning for you.

Peter Høeg

I've had the privilege of learning foreign languages. Instead of merely speaking a watered-down form of my mother tongue, like most people, I'm also helpless in two or three other languages.

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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.

Apartment, Bad Day, Front, Nice, Suicidal, Throat

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

Different, Enjoy, Meaner, People

The problem with anger against God is that it's impossible to go higher in the system to complain.

Against, Complain, Complaining, Impossible, Problem

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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