“He was afraid of touching his own wrist. He never attempted to sleep on his left side, even in those dismal hours of the night when the insomniac longs for a third side after trying the two he has.”

—  Vladimir Nabokov , book Pnin

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Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor 1899–1977

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