I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my…

Vladimir Nabokov
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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 Nabokov (2011). The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov, p.480, Vintage
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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 Nabokov (2011). The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov, p.480, Vintage

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