Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997)
Julia Ormond: Smilla Jaspersen
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Quotes
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Smilla : The number system is like human life. First you have the natural numbers. The ones that are whole and positive. Like the numbers of a small child. But human consciousness expands. The child discovers longing. Do you know the mathematical expression for longing? The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you're missing something.
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Smilla : The way you have a sense of God, I have a sense of snow.
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Smilla : The only thing that makes me truly happy is mathematics. Snow, ice, and numbers.
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Elsa Lubing : The Devil assumes many forms.
Smilla : It's one of those forms that I'm looking for.
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Smilla : I don't celebrate Christmas, it doesn't mean anything to me.
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[On the subject of love]
Smilla : I've been trying to avoid it all my life, so now it's here I just want to renounce it.
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Smilla : I don't say this to hurt your feelings but you really stink.
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Smilla : [Isaiah is sitting next to Smilla on her sofa] You smell bad. I don't mean to say this to hurt your feelings but you really stink.
[She gives him a bath]
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Smilla : [Benja threatens Smilla. She grabs Benja's crotch with one hand and chokes her with the other] Benja. Leave me alone.