"You know, what's so dreadful about dying is……" — Vladimir Nabokov
"You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own."
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Vladimir Nabokov
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269 Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
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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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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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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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