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All the information I have about myself is from forged documents.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Vladimir Nabokov
Age: 77 †
Born: 1899
Born: January 1
Died: 1977
Died: January 1
Autobiographer
Chess Composer
Chess Player
Journalist
Lepidopterist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
St. Petersburg
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Vladimir Sirin
Vl. Sirin
Wladimir Nabokoff-Sirin
V. Sirin
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Words without experience are meaningless.
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I don't read reviews about myself with any special eagerness or attention unless they are masterpieces of wit and acumen, and I never reread them.
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I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.
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A toothache will cost a battle, a drizzle cancel an insurrection.
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The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.
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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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Most of the dandelions had changed from suns to moons.
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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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You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own.
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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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Perhaps if the future existed, concretely and individually, as something that could be discerned by a better brain, the past would not be so seductive: its demands would be balanced by those of the future.
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Art at its greatest is fantastically deceitful and complex.
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Oh, let me be mawkish for the nonce! I am so tired of being cynical.
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Although I do not care for the slogan art for art's sake, there can be no question that what makes a work of fiction safe from larvae and rust is not its social importance but its art, only its art.
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In this crazy mirror of terror and art a pseudo-quotation made up of obscure Shakespeareanisms (Chapter Three) somehow produces, despite its lack of literal meaning, the blurred diminutive image of the acrobatic performance that so gloriously supplies the bravura ending for the next chapter.
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The future is but the obsolete in reverse.
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Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum.
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I think my favorite fact about myself is that I have never been dismayed by a critic's bilge or bile, and have never once in my life asked or thanked a reviewer for a review.
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It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
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