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Us Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
- The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of…
- We all have such fateful objects -- it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another -- carefully chosen by the…
- I do not know if it has ever been noted before that one of the main characteristics of life is discreteness. Unless a film of…
- We had been everywhere. We had really seen nothing. And I catch myself thinking today that our long journey had only defiled with a sinuous…
- I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.
- Although we read with our minds, the seat of artistic delight is between the shoulder blades. That little shiver behind is quite certainly the highest…
- The contemplation of beauty, whether it be a uniquely tinted sunset, a radiant face, or a work of art, makes us glance back unwittingly at…
- To begin with, let us take the following motto...Literature is Love. Now we can continue.
- A cluster of stars palely glowed above us, between the silhouettes of long thin leaves; that vibrant sky seemed as naked as she was under…
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- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong