Vladimir Nabokov

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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.

Vladimir Nabokov
nature
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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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teacher
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The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.

Vladimir Nabokov
more , gifted , talkative
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A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.

Vladimir Nabokov
masterpiece , fiction , original
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I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.

Vladimir Nabokov
think , like , write
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No one can any longer write in the fat style of strauss. That was killed by stravinsky. He stripped the body of much of its clothes. Music is the craft of building structures with sound and that is what stravinsky represents.

Vladimir Nabokov
any , longer , write , fat , style
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Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Vladimir Nabokov
death
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The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

Vladimir Nabokov
breaking , wave , cannot
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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

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dreams
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Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.

Vladimir Nabokov
some , hate , happy
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No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.

Vladimir Nabokov
author , created , less
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The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.

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evolution , sense
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Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Vladimir Nabokov
life , great , see , why , death
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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.

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

Vladimir Nabokov
complacency , state , mind