The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or …

Vladimir Nabokov
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The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book. ✨ Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Fredson Bowers (1981). Lectures on Russian literature, Harcourt
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