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Nabokov

1899 - 1977 (78)

Nabokov
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10 quotes
Quote 1

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Quote 2

Caress the detail, the divine detail.

Quote 3

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.

Quote 4

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.

Quote 5

Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

Quote 6

It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

Quote 7

While the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time.

Quote 8

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

Quote 9

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

Quote 10

There is only one school of literature - that of talent.