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Vladimir Nabokov Quotes: Life is short. From here to that old…

Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very short walk. Make those twenty-five steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after.

("Lolita")

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