She thought of the recurrent waves of pain that for some reason or other she and her husband had had to endure; of the invisible giants hurting her boy in some unimaginable fashion; of the incalculable amount of tenderness contained in the world; of the fate of this tenderness, which is either crushed or wasted, or transformed into madness; of neglected children humming to themselves in unswept corners; of beautiful weeds that cannot hide from the farmer. Vladimir Nabokov
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  2. I think it is all a matter of love the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes

  3. I recall certain moments, let us call them icebergs in paradise, when after having had my fill of her —after fabulous, insane exertions that left me limp and azure-barred— I would gather her in my arms with, at last, a mute moan of human tenderness...

  4. Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

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

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