"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number……" — Vladimir Nabokov
"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns."
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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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She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every…
— Doris Lessing
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There is no beauty like that which was spoiled by an accident; no accomplishments and graces are so to be…
— Charles Dudley Warner
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All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied.
— Samuel Johnson
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I think we need to find out why the citizens of the world's wealthiest, most envied, most powerful country are…
— William Bennett
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In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.
— Rowan Williams
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The scientific theorist is not to be envied. For Nature, or more precisely experiment, is an exorable and not very…
— Albert Einstein
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He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.
— Horace
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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of…
— John Berger
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But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.
— Joseph Priestley
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America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful,…
— Edna Ferber
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He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.
— Emile M. Cioran
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This resemblance became clear in the Bush the father's visits to the region. He wound up being impressed by the…
— Osama bin Laden
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