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Vladimir Nabokov 193
Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor 1899–1977Related quotes

“I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.”

Oneness With All Life: Inspirational Selections from A New Earth (2008)
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Variant: It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.
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“I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.”