Showing posts with label Vladimir Nabokov. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vladimir Nabokov. Show all posts

Saturday, July 17, 2021

Ageless Spirit: Lisl Steiner






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Life is a great sunrise.

I do not see why death should not be 
an even greater one.



—Vladimir Nabokov


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Sunday, August 16, 2015

from Transparent Things

 
 
 
 
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This is, I believe, it: not the crude anguish of physical death but the incomparable pangs of the mysterious mental maneuver needed to pass from one state of being to another.

Easy, you know, does it, son.


–Vladimir Nabokov