Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

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

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  Vladimir Nabokov
  • World
  • Character
  • Past