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Vladimir Nabokov Quotes


"A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important..."

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"A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a..."

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"Although I do not care for the slogan "art for art's sake"..."

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"Beauty plus pity -- that is the closest we can get to a definition of art...."

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"Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two..."

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"Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished..."

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"Genius is an African who dreams up snow...."

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"I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak..."

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"I think that in a work of art there is a kind of merging between the two..."

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"Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should..."

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"In point of fact, the greater one's science, the deeper the sense of..."

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"It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot...."

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"I've no general ideas to exploit, I just like composing riddles with..."

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"Knowing you'll have something good to read before bed is among the most..."

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"Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even..."

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"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music...."

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"My vocabulary dwells deep in my mind and needs paper to wriggle out into..."

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"Satire is a lesson, parody is a game."

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"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our..."

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"The great fraternity of C-minus, backbone of the nation, steadily..."

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"There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in..."

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