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Most Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
- We are most artistically caged.
- My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting.
- Adultery is a most conventional way to rise above the conventional.
- Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.
- Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals. It is a mental torture I find debasing...…
- 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 fire you rubbed left its brand on the most vulnerable, most vicious and tender point of my body. Now I have to pay for…
- Most of the dandelions had changed from suns into moons.
- 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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- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
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