“ Our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. ”
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“ In my dreams the world would come alive, becoming so captivatingly majestic, free and ethereal, that afterwards it would be oppressive to breathe the dust of this painted life. ”
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“ Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again. ”
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“ Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness. ”
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“ And presently I was driving through the drizzle of the dying day, with the windshield wipers in full action but unable to cope with my tears. ”
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“ Long after her death I felt her thoughts floating through mine. ”
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“ You know, what’s so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own. ”
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“ The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. ”
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“ It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight. ”
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“ It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight. ”
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“ Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards. ”
- Vladimir Nabokov- Copy
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“ It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight. ”
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“ I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes ”
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“ Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twentyfive paces. It is a very short walk. Make those twentyfive steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after. ”
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“ I recall certain moments, let us call them icebergs in paradise, when after having had my fill of her –after fabulous, insane exertions that left me limp and azurebarred–I would gather her in my arms with, at last, a mute moan of human tenderness (her skin glistening in the neon light coming from the paved court through the slits in the blind, her sootblack lashes matted, her grave gray eyes more vacant than ever–for all the world a little patient still in the confusion of a drug after a major operation)–and the tenderness would deepen to shame and despair, and I would lull and rock my lone light Lolita in my marble arms, and moan in her warm hair, and caress her at random and mutely ask her blessing, and at the peak of this human agonized selfless tenderness (with my soul actually hanging around her naked body and ready to repent), all at once, ironically, horribly, lust would swell again–and 'oh, no,' Lolita would say with a sigh to heaven, and the next moment the tenderness and the azure–all would be shattered. ”
- Vladimir Nabokov- Copy
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“ Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece ”
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“ Oh, don't cry, I'm so sorry I cheated so much, but that's the way things are. ”
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“ We all have such fateful objects — it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another — carefully chosen by the gods to attract events of specific significance for us: here shall John always stumble; there shall Jane's heart always break. ”
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“ Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring. ”
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“ The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. ”
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“ We live in a stocking which is in the process of being turned inside out, without our ever knowing for sure to what phase of the process our moment of consciousness corresponds. ”
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