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Simple Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
- My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
- Beauty plus pity-that is the closest we can get to a definition of art. Where there is beauty there is pity for the simple reason…
- My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting.
- He was powerless because he had no precise desire, and this tortured him because he was vainly seeking something to desire. He could not even…
- Devices which in some curious new way imitate nature are attractive to simple minds.
- Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.
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- Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. — Gaston Bachelard
- You all want to know what is my dream? Very simple. To walk along the beach, holding the hand of my lover. — Michelle Bachelet
- There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development… — Lord Acton
- I find that it's the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays. — Amy Adams
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- It is always the simple that produces the marvelous. — Amelia Barr
- The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant… — Dave Barry
- Patriarchy is impotent and qualitatively unable to solve even the most simple problems in the cosmos such as picking up their own… — Roseanne Barr
- Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only… — Dave Barry
- Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple… — John Adams