“And yet I adore him. I think he's quite crazy, and with no place or occupation in life, and far from happy, and philosophically irresponsible – and there is absolutely nobody like him.”

Source: Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

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Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor 1899–1977

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