"The breaking of a wave cannot explain the…" — Vladimir Nabokov

"The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea."

— 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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One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about… — J. J. Abrams
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun… — Michael Badnarik
The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas. — David Bailey
All I wanted to do was ride skateboards - I wanted to be a professional skateboarder. But I had this… — Travis Barker
I was told once if I kept breaking things on my legs, that I wasn't going to be able to… — Travis Barker
Whether you're throwing up or breaking up, you want your girlfriend right there! I don't trust women who don't go… — Drew Barrymore
I'm not interested in breaking news. I'm interested in telling the story of what's going on and then trying to… — Glenn Beck
My thinking was taught to tribes in South Africa like the Zulus and Xhosas. At the time there were about… — Edward de Bono
What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank? — Bertolt Brecht
I'm very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories. — David Byrne
Young Evangelicals, especially, are breaking ranks with older Evangelicals (over 40) and are more and more leaning towards voting Democratic. — Tony Campolo

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