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Quotes from Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle — Vladimir Nabokov

1899–1977 Russia

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Time is rhythm: the insect rhythm of a warm humid night, brain ripple, breathing, the drum in my temple—these are our faithful timekeepers; and reason corrects the feverish beat.

Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (1969)

Man, in that sense, will never die, because there may never be a taxonomical point in his evolutionary progress that can be determined as the last stage of man in the cline turning him into Neohomo, or some horrible throbbing slime.

Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (1969)

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