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  1. Vladimir Nabokov _ The Real Life of Sebastian

    Forget me now, but remember me afterwards, when the bitter part is forgotten. This
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  2. Vladimir Nabokov _ The Real Life of Sebastian

    As it happens with many people who do not trouble about religion in the ordinary trend of life, I hastily invented a soft, warm, tear-misty God, and whispered an informal prayer. Let me get there in time, let him hold out till I come, let him tell me his secret. Now it was all snow: the glass had grown a grey beard.
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  3. Vladimir Nabokov _ The Real Life of Sebastian

    Somehow, too, I remembered Chichikov's round of weird visits in Gogol's "Dead Souls.
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  4. Vladimir Nabokov _ The Real Life of Sebastian

    Our life together was alliterative, and when I think of all the little things which will die, now that we cannot share them, I feel as if we were dead too. And perhaps we are. You see, the greater our happiness was, the hazier its edges grew, as if its outlines were melting, and now it has dissolved altogether. I have not stopped loving you; but something is dead in me, and I cannot see you in the mist … This is all poetry. I am lying to you. Lily-livered. There can be nothing more cowardly than a poet beating about the bush. I
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  5. Vladimir Nabokov _ The Real Life of Sebastian

    Knight seemed to him to be constantly playing some game of his own invention, without telling his partners its rules.
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  6. Vladimir Nabokov _ The Real Life of Sebastian

    But one shelf was a little neater than the rest and here I noted the following sequence which for a moment seemed to form a vague musical phrase, oddly familiar: Hamlet, La morte d'Arthur, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, South Wind, The Lady with the Dog, Madame Bovary, The Invisible Man, Le Temps Retrouvé, Anglo-Persian Dictionary, The Author of Trixie, Alice in Wonderland, Ulysses, About Buying a Horse, King Lear … The melody gave a small gasp and faded.
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