While a few pertinent points have to be marked, the general impression…

Vladimir Nabokov
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While a few pertinent points have to be marked, the general impression I desire to convey is of a side door crashing open in life's full flight, and a rush of roaring black time drowning with its whipping wind the cry of lone disaster. ✨ Vladimir Nabokov (2016). Lolita, p.140, Hamilton Books
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While a few pertinent points have to be marked, the general impression I desire to convey is of a side door crashing open in life's full flight, and a rush of roaring black time drowning with its whipping wind the cry of lone disaster. ✨ Vladimir Nabokov (2016). Lolita, p.140, Hamilton Books

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