We all have such fateful objects -- it may be a recurrent landscape in…

Vladimir Nabokov
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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. ✨ Vladimir Nabokov (2012). Lolita, p.163, Penguin UK
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