Time is rhythm: the insect rhythm of a warm humid night, brain ripple,…

Vladimir Nabokov
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Time is rhythm: the insect rhythm of a warm humid night, brain ripple, breathing, the drum in my temple—these are our faithful timekeepers; and reason corrects the feverish beat. ✨ Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1969). Ada: or, Ardor, a family chronicle, McGraw-Hill Companies
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Time is rhythm: the insect rhythm of a warm humid night, brain ripple, breathing, the drum in my temple—these are our faithful timekeepers; and reason corrects the feverish beat. ✨ Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1969). Ada: or, Ardor, a family chronicle, McGraw-Hill Companies

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