"You lose your immortality when you lose your…" — Vladimir Nabokov
"You lose your immortality when you lose your memory."
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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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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is…
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.
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The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind…
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Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if…
— Ambrose Bierce
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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is…
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.
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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
— Woody Allen
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When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever…
— H. L. Mencken
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