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"Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives"
- Vladimir Nabokov
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Vladimir Nabokov
between April 22, 1899 and July 2, 1977. He/she was a famous
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