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It was an interesting thing to do. why did i write any of my books, after all? for the sake of the pleasure, for the sake of the difficulty. i have no social purpose, no moral message; i've no general ideas to exploit, i just like composing riddles with elegant solutions.
-Vladimir Nabokov
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It Was An Interesting Thing To Do.

Vladimir Nabokov
It was an interesting thing to do. why did i write any of my books, after all? for the sake of the pleasure, for the sake of the difficulty. i have no social purpose, no moral message; i've no general ideas to exploit, i just like composing riddles with elegant solutions.
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