"Perhaps if the year was 1447 instead of……" — Vladimir Nabokov
"Perhaps if the year was 1447 instead of 1947 I might have hoodwinked my gentle nature by administering her some classical poison from a hollow agate, some tender philter of death. But in our middle-class nosy era it would not have come off the way it used to in the brocaded palaces of the past. Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer."
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Vladimir Nabokov
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269 Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
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My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
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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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