"Mnemosyne, one must admit, has shown herself to……" — Vladimir Nabokov

"Mnemosyne, one must admit, has shown herself to be a very careless girl."

— 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…
I have never seen a more lucid, better balanced, mad mind than mine.
The tiny madman in his padded cell.
There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and…
The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink…
Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it…
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of…
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

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The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that. — J. J. Abrams
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. — Diane Ackerman
I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not. — Lester Bangs
We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to… — Dave Barry
I have not heard people in the Republican Party yet admit that they have a problem. And when they do… — Glenn Beck
At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took… — Kate Beckinsale
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors. — Ludwig van Beethoven
Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better… — Erma Bombeck
In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United… — Bono
I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. — Daniel Boone

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