Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

The nostalgia I have been cherishing all these years is a hypertrophied sense of lost childhood, not sorrow for lost banknotes.

Vladimir Nabokov

• Childhood
• Sorrow
• Nostalgia
• Cherish

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  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Childhood
  • Sorrow
  • Nostalgia