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Vladimir Nabokov was a 19th-century American and american novelist. Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin, was a Russian and American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist. Born in Imperial Russia in 1899, Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian (1926–1938) while living in Berlin, where he met his wife, Véra Nabokov. Read more on Wikipedia →

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“I think it is all a matter of love the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes ”
— Vladimir Nabokov
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“Devices which in some curious new way imitate nature are attractive to simple minds.”
— Vladimir Nabokov
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“No free man needs a God; but was I free?How fully I felt nature glued to meAnd how my childish palate loved the tasteHalf-fish, half-honey, of that golden paste!My picture book was at an early ageT...”
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“Why did I hope we would be happy abroad? A change of environment is that traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.”
— Vladimir Nabokov
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“Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.”
— Vladimir Nabokov
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“Let all of life be an unfettered howl.”
— Vladimir Nabokov
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