"I think it is all a matter of love the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes

He loved her in spite of her unlovableness. Armande had many trying, thought not necessarily rare, traits, all of which he accepted as absurd clues in a clever puzzle.
~ Vladimir Nabokov ~












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