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Quote by Vladimir Nabokov
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that ou

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. – Vladimir Nabokov

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A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past. – Vladimir Nabokov

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A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. – Vladimir Nabokov

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The light shines in the darkness and the darkness comprehended it not. – Bible

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A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy. – John Denver, "Sunshine on My Shoulders"

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For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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