The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense. ✨ Vl…

Vladimir Nabokov
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The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense. ✨ Vladimir Nabokov (2011). Pnin, p.33, Vintage
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