"The sun is a thief: she lures the……" — Vladimir Nabokov
"The sun is a thief: she lures the sea and robs it. The moon is a thief: he steals his silvery light from the sun. The sea is a thief: it dissolves the moon."
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Vladimir Nabokov
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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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More Dissolves Quotes
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What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.
— Lord Chesterfield
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Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Meditation... dissolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.
— Tom Robbins
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The hero is known for achievements; the celebrity for well-knowns. The hero reveals the possibilities of human nature. The celebrity…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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Painting dissolves the forms at its command ... it melts them into color.
— Alexander Eliot
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Mind dissolves only when you don't choose. And when there is no mind, you are for the first time in…
— Rajneesh
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Risk always brings its own rewards: the exhilaration of breaking through, of getting to the other side; the relief of…
— Marilyn Ferguson
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If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends…
— Eckhart Tolle
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If all we know of mind is the aspect of mind that dissolves when we die, we will be left…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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Unfortunately, nature is very much a now-you-see-it, now-you-don't affair. A fish flashes, then dissolves in the water before my eyes…
— Annie Dillard
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