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A toothache will cost a battle, a drizzle cancel an insurrection.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Vladimir Nabokov
Age: 77 †
Born: 1899
Born: January 1
Died: 1977
Died: January 1
Autobiographer
Chess Composer
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Journalist
Lepidopterist
Literary Critic
Novelist
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Poet
Science Fiction Writer
St. Petersburg
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Vladimir Sirin
Vl. Sirin
Wladimir Nabokoff-Sirin
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I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita.
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The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.
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I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.
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I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art.
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Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?
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There he stood, in the camouflage of sun and shade, disfigured by them and masked by his own nakedness.
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Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.
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What surprises you in life? The marvel of consciousness -- that sudden window swinging open on a sunlit landscape amidts the night of non-being.
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