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You lose your immortality when you lose your memory.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Vladimir Nabokov
Age: 77 †
Born: 1899
Born: January 1
Died: 1977
Died: January 1
Autobiographer
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Science Fiction Writer
St. Petersburg
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
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My own ultraviolet darling. Lolita
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To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.
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Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture.
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Only talent interests me in paintings and books. Not general ideas, but the individual contribution.
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a person hoping to become a poet must have the capacity of thinking of several things at a time.
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We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless.
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My only grudge against nature was that I could not turn my Lolita inside out and apply voracious lips to her young matrix, her unknown heart, her nacreous liver, the sea-grapes of her lungs, her comely twin kidneys.
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