Theoretically there is no absolute proof that one's awakening in the m…

Vladimir Nabokov
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Theoretically there is no absolute proof that one's awakening in the morning (the finding oneself again in the saddle of one's personality) is not really a quite unprecedented event, a perfectly original birth. ✨ Vladimir Nabokov (2012). Bend Sinister, p.77, Penguin UK
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Theoretically there is no absolute proof that one's awakening in the morning (the finding oneself again in the saddle of one's personality) is not really a quite unprecedented event, a perfectly original birth. ✨ Vladimir Nabokov (2012). Bend Sinister, p.77, Penguin UK

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