Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter th…

Vladimir Nabokov
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Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives. ✨ Vladimir Nabokov (2012). Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited, p.206, Penguin UK
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