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Alas! In vain historians pry and probe: The same wind blows, and in the same live robe Truth bends her head to fingers curved cupwise; And with a woman's smile and a child's care Examines something she is holding there Concealed by her own shoulder from our eyes.

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Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov

Born: April 22, 1899
Died: July 2, 1977 (aged 78)
Bio: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was a Russian-American novelist. His first nine novels were in Russian, and he achieved international prominence after he began writing English prose.
Known for:
  1. Lolita (1955)
  2. Pale Fire (1962)
  3. Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (1969)
  4. The Gift (1952)
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