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Chess Composer Inspirational Quotes (722)

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There is the first satisfaction of arranging it on a bit of paper after many, many false tries, false moves, finally you have the sentence you recognize as the one you are looking for.
Vladimir Nabokov
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There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
Alfred de Musset
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I believe that either Jupiter has life or it doesn't. But I neither believe that it does, nor do I believe that it doesn't.
Raymond Smullyan
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Non-Russian readers do not realize two things: that not all Russians love Dostoievsky as much as Americans do, and that most of those Russians who do, venerate him as a mystic and not as an artist.
Vladimir Nabokov
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There are hardly half a dozen writers in England today who have not sold out to the enemy. Even when their good work has been a success, Mammon grips them and whispers: More money for more work.
Aleister Crowley
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All my life I have been a poor go-to-sleeper. No matter how great my weariness, the wrench of parting with consciousness is unspeakably repulsive to me.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Literature was not born the day when a boy crying wolf, wolf came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at his heels literature was born on the day when a boy came crying wolf, wolf and there was no wolf behind him.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle.
Aleister Crowley
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Attack! Always Attack!
Adolf Anderssen
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It is impossible to ignore a highly important factor of the chess struggle - psychology.
Yuri Averbakh
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Botvinnik was a killer in chess.
Yuri Averbakh
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Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.
Vladimir Nabokov
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... but one loves, and when one is on the brink of death, one turns around to look backward, and one says to oneself: I have often suffered, I have sometimes been wrong, but I have loved.
Alfred de Musset
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Youth has triumphed (upon defeating 86-year-old Dirk van Foreest).
Jacques Mieses
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Curiously enough, one cannot read a book one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative reader is a rereader.
Vladimir Nabokov
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It is difficult to play against Einstein's theory -on his first loss to Fischer
Mikhail Tal
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The beauty of a move lies not in its appearance but in the thought behind it.
Aron Nimzowitsch
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Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
Aleister Crowley
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You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own.
Vladimir Nabokov
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There was a time in my demented youth When somehow I suspected that the truth About survival after death was known To every human being: I alone Knew nothing, and a great conspiracy Of books and people hid the truth from me.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Alas! In vain historians pry and probe: The same wind blows, and in the same live robe Truth bends her head to fingers curved cupwise And with a woman's smile and a child's care Examines something she is holding there Concealed by her own shoulder from our eyes.
Vladimir Nabokov
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The Ruy Lopez occupied a constant place in my opening repertoire. In it is reflected the classical interpretation of the problem of the centre.
Vasily Smyslov
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Beauty plus pity -- that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.
Vladimir Nabokov
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All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born.
Vladimir Nabokov
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