Nabokov

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    After a month or so I get used to the book’s final stage, to its having been weaned from my brain. I now regard it with a kind of amused tenderness as a man regards not his son, but the young wife of his son.
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst.
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    I could isolate, consciously, little. Everything seemed blurred, yellow-clouded, yielding nothing tangible. Her inept acrostics, maudlin evasions, theopathies—every recollection formed ripples of mysterious meaning. Everything seemed yellowly blurred, illusive, lost.
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)