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Great Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
- Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
- 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:…
- Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At…
- Although I could never get used to the constant state of anxiety in which the guilty, the great, and the tenderhearted live, I felt I…
- Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
- Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.
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