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    Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters 1940-1977”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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The clumsiest literal translation is a thousand times more useful than the prettiest paraphrase. - Vladimir Nabokov
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