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I don't think in any language. I think in images.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Vladimir Nabokov
Age: 77 †
Born: 1899
Born: January 1
Died: 1977
Died: January 1
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St. Petersburg
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
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His wings were failing, but he refused to fall without a struggle.
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Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac) and these chosen creatures I propose to designate as nymphets.
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I confess, I do not believe in time.
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All great novels are great fairy tales.
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Thus, in pornographic novels, action has to be limited to the copulation of clichés.
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Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.
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Literature was not born the day when a boy crying wolf, wolf came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at his heels literature was born on the day when a boy came crying wolf, wolf and there was no wolf behind him.
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The compensation for a death sentence is the knowledge of the exact hour when one is to die. A great luxury, but one that is well earned.
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Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them.
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Coordinating there Events and objects with remote events And vanished objects. Making ornaments Of accidents and possibilities.
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Adultery is a most conventional way to rise above the conventional.
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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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in a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one's position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is an immemorial urge. The arms of consciousness reach out and grope, and the longer they are the better. Tentacles, not wings, are Apollo's natural members.
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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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And really, the reason we think of death in celestial terms is that the visible firmament, especially at night (above our blacked-out Paris with the gaunt arches of its Boulevard Exelmans and the ceaseless Alpine gurgle of desolate latrines), is the most adequate and ever-present symbol of that vast silent explosion.
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Do those clowns really believe what they teach?
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There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.
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All the information I have about myself is from forged documents.
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My own ultraviolet darling. Lolita
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Her lips were like large crimson polyps.
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