Nabokov

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“If I were not perfectly sure of my power to write and of my marvelous ability to express ideas with the utmost grace and vividness.... So, more or less, I had thought of beginning my tale.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

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

“A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)