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Way Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
- Perhaps if the year was 1447 instead of 1947 I might have hoodwinked my gentle nature by administering her some classical poison from a hollow…
- The road now stretched across open country, and it occured to me - not by way of protest, not as a symbol, or anything like…
- Adultery is a most conventional way to rise above the conventional.
- Life with you was lovely—and when I say lovely, I mean doves and lilies, and velvet, and that soft pink ‘v’ in the middle and…
- Devices which in some curious new way imitate nature are attractive to simple minds.
- Although I could never get used to the constant state of anxiety in which the guilty, the great, and the tenderhearted live, I felt I…
- His reversed body gracefully curved, his brown legs hoisted like a Tarentine sail, his joined ankles tacking, Vangripped with splayed hands the brow of gravity,…
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