while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space…

Vladimir Nabokov
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while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time. ✨ Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1968). Nabokov's congeries
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while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time. ✨ Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1968). Nabokov's congeries

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