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Surprise of Life

In Fiction, Literary
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Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Vladimir Nabokov – Pale Fire
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Tongue Trip

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The tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth.

Vladimir Nabokov – Pale Fire
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Existence: A Brief Light

In Comic Novel, Fiction, Literary Fiction
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Our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

Vladimir Nabokov – Pnin
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Unfinished Masterpiece

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Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

Vladimir Nabokov – Pale Fire
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Obsolete Future

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The future is but the obsolete in reverse.

Vladimir Nabokov – Pale Fire
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Praise in Pity

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Pity is a kind of praise; and when we pity, we praise.

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