On closer examination, we are simply a banal tragedy spread over two generations.
("Smilla's Sense of Snow")
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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.Peter Høeg
We think there are limits to the dimensions of fear. Until we encounter the unknown. Then we can all feel boundless amounts of terror.
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The cookies combine butter and spices in such a way that you could eat a hundred of them and only realize how sick you are after it's too late.
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Some thoughts have glue on them.----Smilla
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I've always enjoyed cleaning. Even though they tried to teach us laziness in school.
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