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Vladimir Nabokov
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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."
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Vladimir Nabokov
Topic(s):
Teacher
"Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words."
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Vladimir Nabokov
Topic(s):
Poetry
"It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail."
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Vladimir Nabokov
Topic(s):
Nature
"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."
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Vladimir Nabokov
Topic(s):
Music
"A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past."
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Vladimir Nabokov
Topic(s):
Home
"A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist."
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Vladimir Nabokov
Topic(s):
Imagination
"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."
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Vladimir Nabokov
Topic(s):
Imagination
"It’s a pity one can’t imagine what one can’t compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow."
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Vladimir Nabokov
Topic(s):
Dreams
"Genius is an African who dreams up snow."
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Vladimir Nabokov
Topic(s):
Dreams
"Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one."
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Vladimir Nabokov
Topic(s):
Death
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