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Letter "V" » Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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«Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.»
«Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.»
«To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute»
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
(Author, Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Magic
| Keywords:
brute, power play, trash, Trashing, type
«Solitude is the play field of Satan»
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
(Author, Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Solitude
| Keywords:
playing field, Satan, the play
«Here lies the sense of literary creation: to portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in kindly mirrors of future times. . . . To find in objects around us the fragrant tenderness that only posterity will discern . . .»
«You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.»
«Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.»
«Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.»
«Genius is an African who dreams up snow»
«Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.»
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