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Vladimir Nabokov was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia in 1899.
* He was a Russian-American novelist, short story writer, poet, translator, and entomologist.
* His most famous works include Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada or Ardor.
* He was a master of language and style, and his work is known for its wit, humor, and complex wordplay.
* He died in Montreux, Switzerland in 1977.

Nabokov was a complex and fascinating figure, and his work continues to be read and admired by readers around the world.

Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

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Love

Vladimir Nabokov

Let all of life be an unfettered howl.

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Life

Vladimir Nabokov

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.

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Writing

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I confess I do not believe in time. I like to fold my magic carpet, after use, in such a way as to superimpose one part of the pattern upon another. Let visitors trip. And the highest enjoyment of timelessness

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Time

Vladimir Nabokov

Don't touch me; I'll die if you touch me.

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Love

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Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

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Writing

Vladimir Nabokov

We all have such fateful objects -- it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another -- carefully chosen by the gods to attract events of specific significance for us: here shall John always stumble; there shall Jane's heart always break.