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Word Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
- Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At…
- for better or worse, it is the commentator who has the last word.
- I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.
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