Lavina

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Lavina is Currently Reading

Lavina is currently reading

Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America – A Powerful Story from Counterculture to Hollywood Legend

by Jeff Chang (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, 2025, nonfiction

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Lavina’s Quotes

“To the confusion of our enemies.”
― J. Robert Oppenheimer

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“We all have such fateful objects — it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another — carefully chosen by the gods to attract events of specific significance for us: here shall John always stumble; there shall Jane's heart always break.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

tags: fate, life, lolita, nabokov

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