“A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about coincidence.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, book Laughter in the Dark

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Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor 1899–1977

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