I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express …

Vladimir Nabokov
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I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more. ✨ Vladimir Nabokov (2012). Man From The USSR & Other Plays: And Other Plays, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more. ✨ Vladimir Nabokov (2012). Man From The USSR & Other Plays: And Other Plays, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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