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Know Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
- Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.
- I do not know if it has ever been noted before that one of the main characteristics of life is discreteness. Unless a film of…
- I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.
- Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.
- - Might it console you to know that I expect nothing but torture from her return? That I regard you as a bird of paradise?…
- Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very…
- My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three, and, save for a pocket of warmth in the darkest…
- I looked and looked at her, and I knew, as clearly as I know that I will die, that I loved her more than anything…
- …my Lolita remarked: “You know, what’s so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own”; and it struck me, as my automaton…
- You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own.
- I cannot disobey something which I do not know and the reality of which I have the right to deny.
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