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  1. Vladimir Nabokov _ Laughter in the Dark

    {S}urely the Cupid serving him was lefthanded, with a weak chin and no imagination.
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  2. Vladimir Nabokov _ Laughter in the Dark

    Although there is plenty of space on a gravestone to contain, bound in moss, the abridged version of a man's life, detail is always welcome.
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  3. Vladimir Nabokov _ Laughter in the Dark

    Death," he had said on another occasion, "seems to be merely a bad habit, which nature is at present powerless to overcome.
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  4. Vladimir Nabokov _ Laughter in the Dark

    No you can't take a pistol and plug a girl you don't even know simply because she attracts you.
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  5. Vladimir Nabokov _ Laughter in the Dark

    This is the whole of the story and we might have left it at that had there not been profit and pleasure in the telling; and although there is plenty of space on a gravestone to contain, bound in moss, the abridged version of a man's life, detail is always welcome.
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  6. Vladimir Nabokov _ Laughter in the Dark

    Death often is the point of life's joke."
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  7. Vladimir Nabokov _ Laughter in the Dark

    {...} leaving for a day or two that hopeless sense of loss which makes beauty what it is: a distant lone tree against golden heavens; ripples of light on the inner curve of a bridge; a thing impossible to capture.
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  8. Vladimir Nabokov _ Laughter in the Dark

    Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for the sake of a youthful mistress; he loved; was not loved; and his life ended in disaster.This is the whole of the story and we might have left it at that had there not been profit and pleasure in the telling; and although there is plenty of space on a gravestone to contain, bound in moss, the abridged version of a man's life, detail is always welcome.
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  9. Vladimir Nabokov _ Laughter in the Dark

    A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That's what I like about coincidence.
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