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Darianna

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Lolita

by Vladimir Nabokov

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Darianna said: " So hilariously funny and dark.
That Nabokov wrote this as a parody of Thomas Mann’e “Death in Venice” makes it even more impressive "

Aug 21, 2025 07:53AM · see review

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The Art of Travel (Vintage International)

by Alain de Botton (Goodreads Author)

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“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

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“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

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“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing

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“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

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