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Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

«I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.»
«The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.»
«I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is»
Author: Vladimir Nabokov (Author, Critic, Novelist) | About: Love | Keywords: stranger
«Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.»
«Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.»
«The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.»
«The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.»
«Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words»
«A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.»
«Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.»

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