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Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow (1992)
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Never do I close my door behind me without being conscious that I am carrying out an act of charity towards myself.
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Reading snow is like listening to music. To describe what you've read is to try to explain music in writing.
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Deep inside I know that trying to fathom things out leads to blindness, that the desire to understand has a built-in brutality that erases what you seek to comprehend. Only experience is sensitive.
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I'm not crying about anything or anyone in particular. The life I live I created for myself, and I wouldn't want it any different. I cry because in the universe there is something as beautiful as Kremer playing the Brains violin concerto.
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
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May 17, 1957
(age 67)
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