Nabokov

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“No, I’m Spartacus. You come to free the slaves or something?”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

““If I hit him, he’ll hit me too,” Anton Petrovich thought in a flash. He pulled off the glove with a final yank and threw it awkwardly at Berg. The glove slapped against the wall and dropped into the washstand pitcher.
“Good shot,” said Berg.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

“Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)