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Vladimir Nabokov
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No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has. ✨ Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1981). Lectures on Russian literature, Harcourt
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I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else.
I am surrounded by some sort of wretched specters, not by people. They torment me as can torment only senseless visions, bad dreams, dregs of delirium, the drivel of nightmares and everything that pa … ▶
Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.
My Lolita remarked: You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own; and it struck me, as my automaton knees went up and down, that I simply did not know a thing about … ▶
I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers. ✨ Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1973). Strong opinions, McGraw-Hill Companies

No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has. ✨ Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1981). Lectures on Russian literature, Harcourt

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