Vladimir Nabokov
Quotations
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“A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.” -Vladimir Nabokov
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“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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“I confess, I do not believe in time.” -Vladimir Nabokov
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“Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.” -Vladimir Nabokov
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“A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.” -Vladimir Nabokov
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“To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.” -Vladimir Nabokov
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“Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.” -Vladimir Nabokov
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“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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“My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.” -Vladimir Nabokov
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“Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.” -Vladimir Nabokov
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“A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.” -Vladimir Nabokov
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“A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.” -Vladimir Nabokov
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“Genius is an African who dreams up snow.” -Vladimir Nabokov
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“Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.” -Vladimir Nabokov
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“To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.” -Vladimir Nabokov
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