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Books Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
- We had been everywhere. We had really seen nothing. And I catch myself thinking today that our long journey had only defiled with a sinuous…
- The commentator may be excused for repeating what he has stressed in his own books and lectures, namely that "offensive" is frequently but a synonym…
- There was a time in my demented youth When somehow I suspected that the truth About survival after death was known To every human being:…
- I grew, a happy, healthy child in a bright world of illustrated books, clean sand, orange trees, friendly dogs, sea vistas and smiling faces.
- Of all my Russian books, The Defense contains and diffuses the greatest warmth M which may seem odd seeing how supremely abstract chess is supposed…
- After the dreadful frustrationsFreudians have experienced with my other books, I am sure they will refrain from inflicting upon Waltz a sublimation of the push-button…
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- Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. — Wystan Hugh Auden
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