Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them. ✨ Vladimir Nabok…

Vladimir Nabokov
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Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them. ✨ Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters 1940-1977.
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Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness. ✨ Vladimir Nabokov (2011). The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov, p.464, Vintage
And presently I was driving through the drizzle of the dying day, with the windshield wipers in full action but unable to cope with my tears. ✨ Vladimir Nabokov (2011). The Annotated Lolita: Revised … ▶
Perhaps if the future existed, concretely and individually, as something that could be discerned by a better brain, the past would not be so seductive: its demands would be balanced by those of the f … ▶
All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly, I should add, because that frenzy of mutual possession might have been assuaged only by our actually … ▶
I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it. ✨ Vladimir … ▶

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