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“It was at that moment, just after Krug had fallen through the bottom of a confused dream and sat up on the straw with a gaspand just before his reality, his remembered hideous misfortune could pounce upon himit was then that I felt a pang of pity for Adam and slid towards him along an inclined beam of pale lightcausing instantaneous madness, but at least saving him from the senseless agony of his logical fate.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)
“If rightly made, a boat would be a sort of amphibious animal, a creature of two elements, related by one half its structure to some swift and shapely fish, and by the other to some strong-winged and graceful bird.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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