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Less Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
- No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.
- 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…
- Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At…
- The thought, when written down, becomes less oppressive, but some thoughts are like a cancerous tumor: you express is, you excise it, and it grows…
- Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.
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- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
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- A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you. — Margaret Atwood
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- There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves. — Jane Austen
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