FastSaying
A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about coincidence.
Vladimir Nabokov
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I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.
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A thousand years ago five minutes were
Equal to forty ounces of fine sand.
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Infinite aftertime: above your head
They close like giant wings, and you are dead.
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