Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Har…

Vladimir Nabokov
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Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its tracks a few feet above the cowering village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically. ✨ Vladimir Nabokov (2011). Pnin, p.25, Vintage
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