"The evolution of sense is, in a sense,……" — Vladimir Nabokov
"The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense."
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269 Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov has 269 quotes on this site.
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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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Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
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Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary…
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God's first creature, which was light.
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Evolution isn't true, because if we evolved from monkeys, how can they still be here?
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The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
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In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.
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If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?
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