"Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution." — Vladimir Nabokov

"Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution."

— 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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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth… — Pietro Aretino
Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento

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