A sense of security, of well-being, of summer warmth pervades my memor…

Vladimir Nabokov
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A sense of security, of well-being, of summer warmth pervades my memory. That robust reality makes a ghost of the present. The mirror brims with brightness; a bumblebee has entered the room and bumps against the ceiling. Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die. ✨ Vladimir Nabokov (2012). Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited, p.57, Penguin UK
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