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Book cover for Sleep No More
To collect me. That is what we can so easily be made to feel at seventy-three; an object, not exactly precious but likely to be brittle, to be carefully collected, conscientiously cared for and as conscientiously returned.
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Oscar Wilde
“I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.”
Oscar Wilde

Vladimir Nabokov
“One is always at home in one's past...”
Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory

Vladimir Nabokov
“...Another part of the ritual was to ascend with closed eyes. 'Step, step, step,' came my mother's voice as she led me up - and sure enough, the surface of the next tread would receive the blind child's confident foot; all one had to do was lift it a little higher than usual, so as to avoid stubbing one's toe against the riser. This slow, somewhat somnambulistic ascension in self-engendered darkness held obvious delights. The keenest of them was not knowing when the last step would come. At the top of the stairs, one's foot would be automatically lifted to the deceptive call of 'Step,' and then, with a momentary sense of exquisite panic, with a wild contraction of muscles, would sink into the phantasm of a step, padded, as it were, with the infinitely elastic stuff of its own nonexistence.”
Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory

Epictetus
“An uninstructed person will lay the fault of his own bad condition upon others. Someone just starting instruction will lay the fault on himself. Some who is perfectly instructed will place blame neither on others nor on himself.”
Epictetus, The Art of Living: The Classic Manual on Virtue, Happiness & Effectiveness

Vladimir Nabokov
“Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for (at some forty-five hundred heartbeats an hour).”
Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited

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