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Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.
Vladimir Nabokov



Biography
Author Profession: Novelist
Nationality: American
Born: April 22, 1899
Died: July 2, 1977

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I confess, I do not believe in time.
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There is only one school of literature - that of talent.
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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.
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I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
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You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.
Vladimir Nabokov

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
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Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.
Vladimir Nabokov

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Class, Cocky, Discuss, Discussion, Know, Letting, Neither, Nor, Something, Teacher, Their, Twenty, Two, Which, Young
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