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General Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
- The general impression is that fifteen year-old Dolly remains morbidly uninterested in sexual matters, or to be exact, represses her curiosity in order to save…
- No writer in a free country should be expected to bother about the exact demarcation between the sensuous and the sensual; this is preposterous; I…
- While a few pertinent points have to be marked, the general impression I desire to convey is of a side door crashing open in life's…
- There are two kinds of visual memory: one when you skillfully recreate an image in the laboratory of your mind, with your eyes open (and…
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