"His wings were failing, but he refused to……" — Vladimir Nabokov
"His wings were failing, but he refused to fall without a struggle."
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269 Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov has 269 quotes on this site.
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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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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they…
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Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.
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Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail…
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War is what happens when language fails.
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
— John James Audubon
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All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the…
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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the…
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I am convinced in my heart and in my mind that if the United States fails to stand with Israel,…
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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.
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High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when…
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We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
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