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Vladimir Nabokov
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Vladimir Nabokov
Age: 77 †
Born: 1899
Born: January 1
Died: 1977
Died: January 1
Autobiographer
Chess Composer
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Lepidopterist
Literary Critic
Novelist
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Poet
Science Fiction Writer
St. Petersburg
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
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Let all of life be an unfettered howl.
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Although I could never get used to the constant state of anxiety in which the guilty, the great, and the tenderhearted live, I felt I was doing my best in the way of mimicry.
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Derivative writers seem versatile because they imitate many others, past and present. Artistic originality has only itself to copy.
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Imagination without knowledge leads no farther than the back yard of primitive art, the child's scrawl on the fence, and the crank's message in the market place. Art is never simple.
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There is nothing more atrociously cruel than an adored child.
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One is always at home in one's past.
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There he stood, in the camouflage of sun and shade, disfigured by them and masked by his own nakedness.
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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.
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Which arrow flies for ever? The arrow that has hit its mark.
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Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.
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I am not, and never was, and never could have been, a brutal scoundrel.
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A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle.
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Life is a message scribbled in the dark.
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As to the rest, I am no more guilty of imitating 'real life' than'real life' is responsible for plagiarizing me.
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And what is death, if not a face at peace - its artistic perfection.
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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.
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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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Why do those people guess so much and shave so little, and are so disdainful of hearing aids?
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Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very short walk. Make those twenty-five steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after.
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In and out of my heart flowed my rainbow blood.
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