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Vladimir Nabokov _ Transparent Things
Mas o amor, dizia ele, era tudo menos credível, a vida real era ridícula, os labregos riam-se do amor."
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Vladimir Nabokov _ Transparent Things
Direct interference in a person's life does not enter our scope of activity, nor, on the other, tralatitiously speaking, hand, is his destiny a chain of predeterminate links: some "future" events may be likelier than others, O.K., but all are chimeric, and every cause-and-effect sequence is always a hit-and-miss affair, even if the lunette has actually closed around your neck, and the cretinous crowd holds its breath.
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Vladimir Nabokov _ Transparent Things
According to my almond-eyed little spy, the great surgeon, may his own liver rot, lied to me when he declared yesterday with a deathhead's grin that the had been . Well, it had been so in the sense Euler called zero the perfect number. Actually, they ripped me open, cast one horrified look at my decayed , and without touching it sewed me up again.
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Vladimir Nabokov _ Transparent Things
'I shall vomit,' said Hugh, 'if you persist in pestering me with all that odious rot.'
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Vladimir Nabokov _ Transparent Things
Easy, you know, does it, son.
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Vladimir Nabokov _ Transparent Things
This is, I believe, it: not the crude anguish of physical death but the incomparable pangs of the mysterious mental maneuver needed to pass from one state of being to another."
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Vladimir Nabokov _ Transparent Things
Perhaps if the future existed, concretely and individually, as something that could be discerned by a better brain, the past would not be so seductive: its demands would be balanced by those of the future.
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