It is nothing but a kind of a microcosmos of communism

Vladimir Nabokov
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It is nothing but a kind of a microcosmos of communism - all that psychiatry', rumbled Pnin ... 'Why not leave their private sorrow to people? Is sorrow not, one asks, the only thing in the world people really possess? ✨ Vladimir Nabokov (2011). Pnin, p.52, Vintage
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It is nothing but a kind of a microcosmos of communism - all that psychiatry', rumbled Pnin ... 'Why not leave their private sorrow to people? Is sorrow not, one asks, the only thing in the world people really possess? ✨ Vladimir Nabokov (2011). Pnin, p.52, Vintage

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