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Very Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
- It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the…
- If he was silent I could be silent too. Indeed, I could very well do with a little rest in this subdued, frightened-to-death rocking chair,…
- The commentator may be excused for repeating what he has stressed in his own books and lectures, namely that "offensive" is frequently but a synonym…
- - Might it console you to know that I expect nothing but torture from her return? That I regard you as a bird of paradise?…
- Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very…
- My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three, and, save for a pocket of warmth in the darkest…
- Whenever I start thinking of my love for a person, I am in the habit of immediately drawing radii from my love - from my…
- There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the very gallant Russian…
- We hasten to alienate the very fates we intended to woo.
- Mnemosyne, one must admit, has shown herself to be a very careless girl.
- I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art.
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