"Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another……" — Vladimir Nabokov
"Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring."
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269 Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
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- 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…
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- 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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