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Vladimir Nabokov

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You have to be an artist and a madman...
From Lolita
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Topic: Philosophical
Death often is the point of life's joke.
From Laughter in the Dark
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Topic: Death
The fame of his likes circulates briskly but soon grows heavy and stale; and as for history it will limit his life story to the dash between two dates.
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Topic: Death
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.
From Speak, Memory
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Topic: Death, Life
Light in comparison with darkness is a void.
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Topic: Philosophical
Why did I hope we would be happy abroad? A change of environment is that traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.
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Topic: Happiness
A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about coincidence.
From Laughter in the Dark
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Topic: Funny
There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.
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Topic: Funny
The square root of I is I.
From Bend Sinister
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Topic: Philosophical
We all have such fateful objects — it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another — carefully chosen by the gods to attract events of specific significance for us: here shall John always stumble; there shall Jane's heart always break.
From Lolita
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Topic: Life
We live in a stocking which is in the process of being turned inside out, without our ever knowing for sure to what phase of the process our moment of consciousness corresponds.
From Bend Sinister
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Topic: Philosophical
Oh, don't cry, I'm so sorry I cheated so much, but that's the way things are.
From Lolita
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Topic: Life
Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.
From Mary
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Topic: Life
All religions are based on obsolete terminology.
From Pale Fire
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Topic: Philosophical, Religion
Let all of life be an unfettered howl.
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Topic: Life
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. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for.
From Speak, Memory
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Topic: Death, Life
The village schoolmaster took us for instructive walks ('what you hear is the sound of a scythe being sharpened' ; 'that field there will be given a rest next season ';'oh, just a small bird...no special name '; 'if that peasant is drunk, it is because he is poor ') 71
From Speak, Memory
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Topic: Education
You have to be an artist and a madman...
From Lolita
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Topic: Philosophical
Death often is the point of life's joke.
From Laughter in the Dark
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
The fame of his likes circulates briskly but soon grows heavy and stale; and as for history it will limit his life story to the dash between two dates.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
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.
From Speak, Memory
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Topic: Death, Life
Light in comparison with darkness is a void.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Why did I hope we would be happy abroad? A change of environment is that traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about coincidence.
From Laughter in the Dark
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
The square root of I is I.
From Bend Sinister
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
We all have such fateful objects — it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another — carefully chosen by the gods to attract events of specific significance for us: here shall John always stumble; there shall Jane's heart always break.
From Lolita
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Topic: Life
We live in a stocking which is in the process of being turned inside out, without our ever knowing for sure to what phase of the process our moment of consciousness corresponds.
From Bend Sinister
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Topic: Philosophical
Oh, don't cry, I'm so sorry I cheated so much, but that's the way things are.
From Lolita
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Topic: Life
Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.
From Mary
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Topic: Life
All religions are based on obsolete terminology.
From Pale Fire
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Topic: Philosophical, Religion
Let all of life be an unfettered howl.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
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. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for.
From Speak, Memory
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Topic: Death, Life
The village schoolmaster took us for instructive walks ('what you hear is the sound of a scythe being sharpened' ; 'that field there will be given a rest next season ';'oh, just a small bird...no special name '; 'if that peasant is drunk, it is because he is poor ') 71
From Speak, Memory
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Topic: Education
You have to be an artist and a madman...
From Lolita
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Death often is the point of life's joke.
From Laughter in the Dark
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
The fame of his likes circulates briskly but soon grows heavy and stale; and as for history it will limit his life story to the dash between two dates.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
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.
From Speak, Memory
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death, Life
Light in comparison with darkness is a void.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Why did I hope we would be happy abroad? A change of environment is that traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about coincidence.
From Laughter in the Dark
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
The square root of I is I.
From Bend Sinister
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
We all have such fateful objects — it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another — carefully chosen by the gods to attract events of specific significance for us: here shall John always stumble; there shall Jane's heart always break.
From Lolita
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
We live in a stocking which is in the process of being turned inside out, without our ever knowing for sure to what phase of the process our moment of consciousness corresponds.
From Bend Sinister
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Oh, don't cry, I'm so sorry I cheated so much, but that's the way things are.
From Lolita
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.
From Mary
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Topic: Life
All religions are based on obsolete terminology.
From Pale Fire
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
Let all of life be an unfettered howl.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
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. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for.
From Speak, Memory
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Topic: Death, Life
The village schoolmaster took us for instructive walks ('what you hear is the sound of a scythe being sharpened' ; 'that field there will be given a rest next season ';'oh, just a small bird...no special name '; 'if that peasant is drunk, it is because he is poor ') 71
From Speak, Memory
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Topic: Education