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Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
Her exotic daydreams do not prevent her from being small-town bourgeois at heart, clinging to conventional ideas or committing this or that conventional violation of the conventional, adultery being a most conventional way to rise above the conventional.
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| Birth: | 22nd April, 1899 |
| Death: | 2nd July, 1977 |
| Nationality: | American, Russian |
| Profession: | Novelist, Professor |
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Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was a Russian American novelist. Nabokov's first nine novels were in Russian. He then rose to international prominence as a writer of English prose. He also made serious contributions as a lepidopterist and chess composer.
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