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“Morals are always erected by people who know where their next meal is coming from But everything goes, for ourselves, when we are without even a biscuit to nibble.”
― Aksel Sandemose, A Fugitive Covers His Tracks

“Music and night follow the same route to the human heart.  In music and in alcoholic intoxication we are carried downward to our level of existence at the time we lay in the cradle and adored ourselves.  Intoxication, night, and music — each is a person who casts himself to earth and shrieks his own name.”
― Aksel Sandemose, A Fugitive Covers His Tracks

“find a study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition confirming that home-cooked meals actually make people feel better than indulgent meals eaten at a restaurant.”
― Helen Russell, The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country

“The Worldwatch Institute’s 2011 State of Consumption report also found that wealth won’t help you on your way to having a satisfying life and new research shows that there’s even a cut-off point for the amount of income we need to be content. A combined study from the Universities of Warwick and Minnesota found that there was a basic threshold beyond which any extra money added nothing to levels of well-being. The figure is around 197,000 DKK a year (£22,000 or $36,000), after which we apparently get wealthier but less contented.”
― Helen Russell, The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country