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• Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
  -- Vladimir Nabokov...
• Prophecy is the wit of a fool. -- Vladimir Nabokov
• There is one surprise in life that we can still experience, and that is that there are some things in this life which can and do surprise us.
• Why should I be the one to do it? Why should it be done at all?
  Why should it be done now? Why should it be done this way?...
• He deserves death'. 'Deserves it! I daresay he does.
  Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life....
• Genius is an African who dreams up snow. -- Vladimir Nabokov
• A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles.
  Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts....
• The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give the data authenticity.
  -- Augustine's Law Number XXXV -- Norman R. Augustine, President and CEO, Martin Marietta...
• You do not understand hatred as I understand it. Only hate keeps me alive.
  ] Why else should I endure this pain? I must see the Doctor die in shame and dishonour....