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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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“Devices which in some curious new way imitate nature are attractive to simple minds.”
— Vladimir Nabokov
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“Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.”
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“Let all of life be an unfettered howl.”
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