“… in my dreams the world would come alive, becoming so captivatingly majestic, free and ethereal, that afterwards it would be oppressive to breathe the dust of this painted life.”

—  Vladimir Nabokov , book Invitation to a Beheading

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Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor 1899–1977

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