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My Struggle (My Struggle #6)

by Karl Ove Knausgård

bookshelves: currently-reading, 2018, fiction, translation

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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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“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
― Henry James

tags: kindness

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