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Known Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
- Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.
- 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.
- My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting.
- 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:…
- Treading the soil of the moon, palpitating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the…
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