...for the human brain can become the best torture house of all those …

Vladimir Nabokov
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...for the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented, established and used in a millions of years, in millions of lands, on millions of howling creatures. ✨ Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1969). Ada: or, Ardor, a family chronicle, McGraw-Hill Companies
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...for the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented, established and used in a millions of years, in millions of lands, on millions of howling creatures. ✨ Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1969). Ada: or, Ardor, a family chronicle, McGraw-Hill Companies

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