Nabokov

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    Humbert Humbert. What a thrillingly different name.
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    ... the compensation for a death sentence is knowledge of the exact hour when one is to die. A great luxury, but one that is well earned.
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)