Vladimir Nabokov

" Genius is finding the invisible link between things. "
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Genius
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" It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight. "
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Love
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" I think it is all a matter of love the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes "
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Love
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" I recall certain moments, let us call them icebergs in paradise, when after having had my fill of her –after fabulous, insane exertions that left me limp and azure-barred–I would gather her in my arms with, at last, a mute moan of human tenderness (her skin glistening in the neon light coming from the paved court through the slits in the blind, her soot-black lashes matted, her grave gray eyes more vacant than ever–for all the world a little patient still in the confusion of a drug after a major operation)–and the tenderness would deepen to shame and despair, and I would lull and rock my lone light Lolita in my marble arms, and moan in her warm hair, and caress her at random and mutely ask her blessing, and at the peak of this human agonized selfless tenderness (with my soul actually hanging around her naked body and ready to repent), all at once, ironically, horribly, lust would swell again–and 'oh, no,' Lolita would say with a sigh to heaven, and the next moment the tenderness and the azure–all would be shattered. "
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Beautiful
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" Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it. "
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Love , Memory
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" Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece "
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Life
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" Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is. "
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Life , Lies
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" Let all of life be an unfettered howl. "
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Living , Life
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" Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring. "
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Desire , craving
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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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Reality , Life
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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. "
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Fate , Life
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" The square root of I is I. "
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Philosophy , Ego
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" All religions are based on obsolete terminology. "
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Philosophy , Faith
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Vladimir Nabokov
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22-04-1899 02-07-1977 Novelist, Entomologist, Translator, Professor citation
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