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Upon Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
- Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for…
- 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…
- A change of environment is the traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.
- do what only a true artist can do ... pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation
- 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…
- I was the shadow of the waxwing slain By the false azure in the windowpane; I was the smudge of ashen fluff -and I Lived…
- a man who has decided upon self-destruction is far removed from mundane affairs, and to sit down and write his will would be, at that…
- ...and the red sun of desire and decision (the two things that create a live world) rose higher and higher, while upon a succession of…
- After the dreadful frustrationsFreudians have experienced with my other books, I am sure they will refrain from inflicting upon Waltz a sublimation of the push-button…
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