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Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Vladimir Nabokov

1962

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Mystery of death Life and death Death

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1962

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Vladimir Nabokov

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Nabokov, Vladimir. Pale Fire. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1962.

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