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I was the shadow of the waxwing slain
by the false azure in the windowpane;
Vladimir Nabokov
Pale Fire (1962)
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
Charles Caleb Colton
Vladimir Nabokov
Born:
April 22, 1899
Died:
July 2, 1977
(aged 78)
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