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Better Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
- I have never seen a more lucid, better balanced, mad mind than mine.
- I sometimes used to ask myself, what on earth did I love her for? Maybe fore the warm hazel iris of her fluffy eyes, or…
- in a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one's position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is an immemorial urge.…
- for better or worse, it is the commentator who has the last word.
- Perhaps if the future existed, concretely and individually, as something that could be discerned by a better brain, the past would not be so seductive:…
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