Quote by Vladimir Nabokov
It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more tha

It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail. – Vladimir Nabokov

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