Speak, Memory Coming of Age (& Youth) Quotes

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Quote #10

You always considered abominably trite, and not devoid of a peculiar Philistine flavor, the notion that small boys, in order to be delightful, should hate to wash and love to kill. (15.3.1)

This is one model of boyhood, and while his wife Vera is unsure about it, Vladimir did spend his childhood (and subsequent life), catching and killing and collecting butterflies...