"Caress the detail, the divine detail." — Vladimir Nabokov
"Caress the detail, the divine detail."
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Vladimir Nabokov
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269 Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
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Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times…
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I have never seen a more lucid, better balanced, mad mind than mine.
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The tiny madman in his padded cell.
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There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and…
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The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink…
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Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
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Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.
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My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
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I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it…
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The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of…
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A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
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Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
— Leonard Cohen
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It is much simpler and easier to collect and caress the trophies of our democratic inheritance than it is to…
— Charles Ferguson
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I am in the night. There is a being who has gone away and carried the heavens with her. Oh!…
— Victor Hugo
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The souls of all our brethren are ever hovering about us, craving for a caress, and only waiting for the…
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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If a man rejoice not in his drinking, he is mad; for in drinking it's possible ... to fondle breasts,…
— Euripides
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If by chance I seated myself to write, she very slyly, very tenderly, seeking protection and caresses, would softly take…
— Pierre Loti
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Slowly, with a look of intense concentration, he got up and advanced on me ... put out a front paw,…
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
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Never has good weather felt so bad. Never have flowers inspired so much fear. Never has the warm caress of…
— Joel Achenbach
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Football is like a religion to me. I worship the ball, and I treat it like a god. Too many…
— Pele
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Light is my inspiration, my paint and brush. It is as vital as the model herself. Profoundly significant, it caresses…
— Ruth Bernhard
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I will cover you with love when next I see you, with caresses, with ecstasy. I want to gorge you…
— Gustave Flaubert
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