"What surprises you in life? The marvel of……" — Vladimir Nabokov
"What surprises you in life? The marvel of consciousness -- that sudden window swinging open on a sunlit landscape amidts the night of non-being."
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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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We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
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You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between…
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Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
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Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself,…
— Annie Besant
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The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter,…
— Annie Besant
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Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one…
— Theodor Adorno
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The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make…
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As an actress, I think there is always a political consciousness there.
— Juliette Binoche
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Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others,…
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