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Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

There was a time in my demented youth. When somehow I suspected that the truth. About survival after death was known. To every human being: I alone. Knew nothing, and a great conspiracy. Of books and people hid the truth from me.

Vladimir Nabokov

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