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Letter "V" » 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.»
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
(Author, Critic, Novelist)
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«I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is»
«Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.»
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
(Author, Critic, Novelist)
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Past
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associated, revives, reviving, smell
«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.»
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
(Author, Critic, Novelist)
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blank, clamoring, ink, miraculous, pages
«The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.»
«Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words»
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
(Author, Critic, Novelist)
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Poetry
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involves, irrational, mysteries, perceived, rational
«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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