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Chess Composer Inspirational Quotes (722)

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In complicated positions, Bobby Fischer hardly had to be afraid of anybody
Paul Keres
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It's no good trying to teach people who need to be taught.
Aleister Crowley
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The return makes one love the farewell.
Alfred de Musset
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And she was mine, she was mine, the key was in my fist, my fist was in my pocket, she was mine.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of haviong an evil thought during the game.
Wilhelm Steinitz
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What surprises you in life? The marvel of consciousness -- that sudden window swinging open on a sunlit landscape amidts the night of non-being.
Vladimir Nabokov
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When I today ask myself whence I got the moral courage, for it takes moral courage to make a move (or form a plan) running counter to all tradition, I think I may say in answer, that it was only my intense preoccupation with the problem of the blockade which helped me to do so.
Aron Nimzowitsch
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What would Chess be without silly mistakes?
Kurt Richter
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First restrain, next blockade, lastly destroy.
Aron Nimzowitsch
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For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me.
Vladimir Nabokov
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I am alone. There is no God where I am.
Aleister Crowley
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By positional play a master tries to prove and exploit true values, whereas by combinations he seeks to refute false values ... A combination produces an unexpected re-assessment of values.
Emanuel Lasker
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Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?
Vladimir Nabokov
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The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.
Vladimir Nabokov
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I still dwelled deep in my elected paradise--a paradise whose skies were the color of hell-flames--but still a paradise.
Vladimir Nabokov
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I witness with pleasure the supreme achievement of memory, which is the masterly use it makes of innate harmonies when gathering to its fold the suspended and wandering tonalities of the past.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game
Wilhelm Steinitz
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I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Beauty plus pity-that is the closest we can get to a definition of art. Where there is beauty there is pity for the simple reason that beauty must die: beauty always dies, the manner dies with the matter, the world dies with the individual.
Vladimir Nabokov
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I am sentimental,’ she said. ‘I could dissect a koala but not its baby. I like the words damozel, eglantine, elegant. I love when you kiss my elongated white hand.
Vladimir Nabokov
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A man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him.
Aleister Crowley
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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.
Vladimir Nabokov
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The heart that once has been your shrine for other loves is too divine
Alfred de Musset
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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.
Vladimir Nabokov
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