Without you I wouldn’t have moved this way, to speak the language of flowers.

Vladimir Nabokov Letters to Vera
Also known as: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
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About Vladimir Nabokov

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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