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Chess Composer Inspirational Quotes (722)

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Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.
Aleister Crowley
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…She was, obviously, one of those women whose polished words may reflect a book club or bridge club, or any other deadly conventionality, but never her soul.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Strategically important points should be overprotected. If the pieces are so engaged, they get their regard in the fact that they will then find themselves well posted in every respect.
Aron Nimzowitsch
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Have you ever seen a monkey examining a watch?
Wilhelm Steinitz
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The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.
Aleister Crowley
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Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.
Vladimir Nabokov
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It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.
Vladimir Nabokov
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We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Occasionally, in the middle of a conversation her name would be mentioned, and she would run down the steps of a chance sentence, without turning her head.
Vladimir Nabokov
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A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
Vladimir Nabokov
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I can take care of myself! But the external barriers, my opponents, do indeed concern me.
Mikhail Tal
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I don't belong to any club or group. I don't fish, cook, dance, endorse books, sign books, co-sign declarations, eat oysters, get drunk, go to church, go to analysts, or take part in demonstrations.
Vladimir Nabokov
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A thorough knowledge of the elements takes us more than half the road to mastership
Aron Nimzowitsch
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Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.
Vladimir Nabokov
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My opponent left a glass of whisky 'en prise' and I took it 'en passant'.
Joseph Henry Blackburne
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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.
Aleister Crowley
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Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star-filled universe, with mathematics stretched beneath, was like an acrobat working with a net but suddenly noticing that in reality there is no net.
Vladimir Nabokov
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The two seem, at first glance, to be opposed, but when you have advanced a little in both, you find that concentration learned in Yoga is of immense use in attaining the mental powers necessary in Magick on the other hand, the discipline of Magick is of the greatest service in Yoga.
Aleister Crowley
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Magic is real. And reality... it is magical.
Aleister Crowley
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In mathematics, if I find a new approach to a problem, another mathematician might claim that he has a better, more elegant solution. In chess, if anybody claims he is better than I, I can checkmate him.
Emanuel Lasker
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As long as my opponent has not yet castled, on each move I seek a pretext for an offensive. Even when I realize that the king is not in danger.
Mikhail Tal
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Playing in your home city is very special. You feel the support and attention. When everything goes well, it's very great, but when it doesn't, you might as well turn off your phone: the advices seem endless.
Mikhail Tal
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I've often thought that there isn't any I at all that we are simply the means of expression of something else that when we think we are ourselves, we are simply the victims of a delusion.
Aleister Crowley
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Many men, many styles what is chess style but the intangible expression of the will to win.
Aron Nimzowitsch
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