“Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals. It is a mental torture I find debasing… I simply cannot get used to the nightly betrayal of reason, humanity, genius.”

—  Vladimir Nabokov, book Speak, Memory

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Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor 1899–1977

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