tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us.

tell me we'll never get used to it

Where there is beauty there is pity for the simple reason that beauty must die: beauty always dies, the manner dies with the matter, the world dies with the individual.

—Vladimir Nabokov, from “Lectures on Literature”

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