I am not, and never was, and never could have been, a bruta… - Vladimir Nabokov

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I am not, and never was, and never could have been, a brutal scoundrel.

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Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (22 April (O.S. 10 April) 1899 – 2 July 1977) was a Russian-American writer. He wrote his first literary works in Russian, but gained international prominence as a masterly prose stylist for the novels he composed in English; his Lolita (1955) is frequently cited as one of the most important novels of the 20th century.

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Native Name: Владимир Владимирович Набоков

Alternative Names: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov • Vladimir Sirin • Vl. Sirin • Wladimir Nabokoff-Sirin • V. Sirin • Nabokov

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For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms resembling me increases. Somewhere they live, somewhere they multiply. I alone do not exist.

Dying, dying, Lolita Haze,
Of hate and remorse I’m dying.
And again my hairy fist I raise,
And again I hear you crying.

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I am not, and never was, and never could have been, a brutal scoundrel. - Vladimir Nabokov

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