"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack..."

“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. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with much more calm than the one he is headed for.”

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Nabokov, Speak, Memory (via ascurrency)

One of my favorite first lines in literature!