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NUMBER:41070
QUOTATION:Comme un fou se croit Dieu, nous nous croyons mortels. (As a madman believes himself to be God, we believe ourselves to be mortal.)
ATTRIBUTION:Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977), Russian-born U.S. novelist, poet. Invitation to a Beheading, epigraph (1959).
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