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Running in the wind, in the pollen and dust, a flower in flight


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Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.



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Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece




I discovered there was an endless source of robust enjoyment in trifling with psychiatrists.

I discovered there was an endless source of robust enjoyment in trifling with psychiatrists.



... she had painted her lips and was holding in her hollowed hands a beautiful, banal, Eden-red apple.

... she had painted her lips and was holding in her hollowed hands a beautiful, banal, Eden-red apple.



For some reason, I kept seeing it—it trembled and silkily glowed on my damp retina—a radiant child of twelve, sitting on a threshold, "pinging" pebbles at an empty can.

For some reason, I kept seeing it—it trembled and silkily glowed on my damp retina—a radiant child of twelve, sitting on a threshold, "pinging" pebbles at an empty can.





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This page presents the quote "Running in the wind, in the pollen and dust, a flower in flight". Author of this quote is Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita. This quote is about wild, youth, running, girls, childhood,.