To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost. — Peter Høeg, Smilla's Sense of Snow
To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost. — Peter Høeg, Smilla's Sense of Snow
To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost. — Peter Høeg, Smilla's Sense of Snow
To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost. — Peter Høeg, Smilla's Sense of Snow
To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost. — Peter Høeg, Smilla's Sense of Snow
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To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost.

— Peter Høeg, Smilla's Sense of Snow
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