Top 19 Hakan Nesser Quotes
#1. What the hell did people have to keep them occupied on a damp and windy day in January apart from sitting indoors and lapping up the story of somebody who had suffered even more than they were doing.
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#2. It's not easy being human. Especially when you are tired and overworked all the time ... That's when you become inhuman.
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#3. Shitty weather. You wonder how people can raise the strength to go out and kill one another.
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#4. Imagine a twelve-year-old-girl.
Imagine her being attacked, raped and murdered.
Take your time.
Then imagine God.
M. Barin, poet
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#5. The living must look after one another, he thought. The worst possible outcome is to die without having lived.
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#6. The dead are older than the living, he thought. Irrespective of how old they were when they passed over to the other side, they have experienced something which makes them older than any living thing.
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#7. You will find out who you are when the difficult moment comes.
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#8. The ritual works. The forms overcome doubts. We have learned over the centuries to weave meaning around emptiness and pain. A meaning and a pattern. We have been practising that for a very long time.
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#9. A shit needs to be reminded that he is a shit now and then.
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#11. The word came into her mind just as quickly as it had done yesterday. "Crap." She hadn't been able to hold it back then - it had flown out of her mouth like an angry and hotheaded little swallow, and in a flash it had changed into a big cloud.
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#12. The waves dying a natural death on the beach seemed to have traveled vast distances bearing neither life nor hope.
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#13. It's only cows who never change their opinion.
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#14. Did there come a point, beyond which we no longer look forward to something coming,but only to getting away from what had passed?
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#15. Haos is the neighbour of God: but everything's usually neat and tidy in hell ...
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#16. We are closer to the end of the world than to that minute that has just passed by, because that is lost forever.
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#17. Everybody must have a story. For those who don't, we need to invent one.
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#18. A crime is born in the gap between the morality of society and that of the individual.
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#19. Words and form! We have a totally clear view of the world when we're fourteen years old, maybe sooner. But then we need another fifty years in order to create a language that can express those impressions. And in the mean time, of course, they've faded away.
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