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Something 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.
- Dear Jesus, do something.
- I sometimes used to ask myself, what on earth did I love her for? Maybe fore the warm hazel iris of her fluffy eyes, or…
- I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.
- Suddenly for no earthly reason I felt immensely sorry for him and longed to say something real, something with wings and a heart, but the…
- Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.
- 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…
- ...that swimming, sloping, elusive something about the dark-bluish tint of the iris which seemed still to retain the shadows it had absorbed of ancient, fabulous…
- Literature, real literature, must not be gulped down like some potion which may be good for the heart or good for the brain—the brain, that…
- Whenever I start thinking of my love for a person, I am in the habit of immediately drawing radii from my love - from my…
- Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At…
- I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else.
- I cannot help feeling there is something essentially wrong about love. Friends may quarrel or drift apart, close relations too, but there is not this…
- Perhaps if the future existed, concretely and individually, as something that could be discerned by a better brain, the past would not be so seductive:…
- I cannot disobey something which I do not know and the reality of which I have the right to deny.
- It all ended with the circuslikewhump of a monstrous box on the ear with which I knocked down the traitress who rolled up in a…
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