"Solitude was corrupting me." — Vladimir Nabokov
"Solitude was corrupting me."
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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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Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in…
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Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed.
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If you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept…
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The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that…
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If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
— Daniel Ellsberg
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Oh, what a vileness human beauty is; corroding, corrupting everything it touches.
— Euripides
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The profit motive is not only fundamental to our ability to reward shareholders and pay employees; it's fundamental to excellent…
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It may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation between the rights of religion…
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My point of view, while extremely cogent, is unpopular. . . . That the repressive nature of the legalities vis-a-vis…
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The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling.
— Francois Mauriac
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