Caress the detail, the divine detail.

Vladimir Nabokov
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Caress the detail, the divine detail.
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Devices which in some curious new way imitate nature are attractive to simple minds. ✨ Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1996). Novels and Memoirs, 1941-1951, Library of America
The thought, when written down, becomes less oppressive, but some thoughts are like a cancerous tumor: you express is, you excise it, and it grows back worse than before. ✨ Vladimir Vladimirovich Nab … ▶
for better or worse, it is the commentator who has the last word. ✨ Vladimir Nabokov (2011). The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated, p.56, Vintage
Thus, in pornographic novels, action has to be limited to the copulation of clichés. ✨ Vladimir Nabokov (2010). Lolita, p.313, Vintage
Although I could never get used to the constant state of anxiety in which the guilty, the great, and the tenderhearted live, I felt I was doing my best in the way of mimicry. ✨ Vladimir Nabokov (2016 … ▶

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