"There is nothing more atrociously cruel than an……" — Vladimir Nabokov
"There is nothing more atrociously cruel than an adored child."
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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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If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest.
— Christian Bale
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As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired…
— Maya Angelou
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According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in…
— Charles Francis Richter
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... and I know it might sound crazy, but after all that, I still love you. You wanna come back…
— Amanda Perez
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ZEUS /n./ The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as God,…
— Ambrose Bierce
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One of the greatest things about daughters is how they adored you when they were little; how they rushed into…
— Michael Josephson
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Christ held Himself in His hands when He gave His Body to His disciples saying: 'This is My Body.' No…
— Saint Augustine
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WOMEN preserve the culture of this country with greater tenacity and faith. They keep men on the moral path and…
— Sathya Sai Baba
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It was in His flesh that Christ walked among us and it is His flesh that He has given us…
— Saint Augustine
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Only conformists are ever adored.
— Catherine Breillat
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You’re adored and you’re talented and the world is waiting to see the results of hard work for the last…
— Natalie Dormer
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I have to go back to my younger days, when I just adored Hollywood musicals.
— Julie Harris
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