— Vladimír Nabokov, Speak, Memory: A Memoir, 1951 (U.S. title: Conclusiv

— Vladimír Nabokov, Speak, Memory: A Memoir, 1951(U.S. title: Conclusive Evidence: A Memoir)

Linus Quotes

“All one could do was to glimpse, amid the haze and the chimeras, something real ahead… The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. 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).”