“Imagine me; I shall not exist if you do not imagine me; try to discern the doe in me, trembling in the forest of my own iniquity; let's even smile a little. After all, there is no harm in smiling.”

—  Vladimir Nabokov, book Lolita

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Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor 1899–1977

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