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One mercifully hopes there are water nymphs in the Styx.
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There are certain trifles I do not forgive. Not having read the required book. Having read it like an idiot.” – John Shade.
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The worst madman is the one who fails to consider the possibility of somebody else being mad too.
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It isn’t possible. I cannot imagine it. Come on over here, you foolish little doe, and tell me on what day I shall die.
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Nothing on earth really matters, there is nothing to fear, and death is but a question of style, a mere literary device, a musical resolution.
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Man exists only insofar as he is separated from his surroundings. The cranium is a space-traveler’s helmet. Stay inside or you perish.
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I looked and looked at her, and I knew, as clearly as I know that I will die, that I loved her more than anything I had ever seen or imagined on earth. She was only the dead-leaf echo of the nymphet from long ago – but I loved her, this Lolita, pale and polluted and big with another man’s child. She could fade and wither – I didn’t care. I would still go mad with tenderness at the mere sight of her face.
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Because of a streak of dreaminess and a gentle abstraction in his nature, Victor in any queue was always at its very end. He had long since grown used to this handicap, as one grows used to weak sight or a limp.
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Ah, gentle drivers gliding through summer’s black nights, what frolics, what twists of lust, you might see from your impeccable highways if Kumfy Kabins were suddenly drained of their pigments and became as transparent as boxes of glass!
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