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motifcollector · 2 days
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At the hotel we had separate rooms, but in the middle of the night she came sobbing into mine, and we made it up very gently. You see, she had absolutely nowhere else to go.
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
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wedarkacademia · 2 months
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Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra
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metamorphesque · 10 months
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— Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra
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petaltexturedskies · 7 months
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Vladimir Nabokov, from letter to Vera Nabokov dated July 1923, featured in Letters to Vera
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mournfulroses · 12 days
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Vladimir Nabokov, from a letter featured in Letters to Vera published in 2014
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leechs · 7 months
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Breaking Bad (2008–2013) x Vladimir Nabokov in Apostrophes (1975)
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on hope
vladimir nabokov || tropics777 on tumblr || mary oliver, “north country” || bakwaas on tumblr || david hockney, “remember you cannot look at the sun or death for very long” || vincent van gogh || bestofgentleearth on tumblr || the oh hellos, “there beneath” || healing-is-cool on tumblr
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alienejj · 2 months
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I took this picture myself. Some of these books are old, some were just poorly handled over the years, and all were thrifted across the second-hand stores of Dublin.
"Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations"
— Vladimir Nabokov.
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not2menotifitsyou · 1 year
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To be loved is to be changed (!!!!!!!!)
The Mountain Goats // Wendy Cope // @8-bitfiction // Eden Robinson // Ada Limon // Bleachers // Amparo Dávila // Octavio Paz // Vladimir Nabokov // Henry James
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asoftepiloguemylove · 10 months
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on memory and loss
Haruki Murakami Norwegian Wood / Call Me by Your Name (2018) dir. Luca Guadagnino / Ocean Vuong On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous / Sea Wolf The Garden That You Planted / Ocean Vuong On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous / Vladimir Nabokov / Theodore Roethke Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke / The Truman Show (1998) dir. Peter Weir / Amal El-Mohtar This is How You Lose the Time War
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rosepompadour · 6 months
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The weather is frosty: straight pink smoke puffs and the air tastes of sugar-glazed cranberries.
Vladimir Nabokov in a letter to Vera Slonim, January 1924
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letojessica · 1 year
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love is the fabric of the universe.
vladmir nabokov in a 1926 letter to his wife véra // la traviata, giuseppe verdi // the antennae galaxies in the midst of colliding, x // speak, memory, vladimir nabokov // heart and soul nebulae, x // interstellar (2014), dir. christopher nolan // divan i shams, rumi
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metamorphesque · 10 months
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— Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra
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firstfullmoon · 1 month
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not nabokov having synesthesia (associating colors with particular letters) and his wife vera also having synesthesia but associating different colors to the same letters and their son dmitri ALSO having synesthesia and some of his colors being a blend of his parents’…the world is beautiful & love is literally everywhere
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mournfulroses · 18 days
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Vladimir Nabokov, from a letter featured in Letters to Vera published in 2014
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