Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
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There were nineteen years between my grandparents, and I was in a relationship for five years from the age of fifteen to twenty with a man who was thirteen years older than me who remains one of the loves of my life, and he passed away when I was twenty years old.
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I spent the first five years of my life in Punjab, India, and then moved to New York.
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I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
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He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
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Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!
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With an undefended heart, we can fall in love with life over and over every day. We can become children of wonder, grateful to be walking on earth, grateful to belong with each other and to all of creation. We can find our true refuge in every moment, in every breath.
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My therapy has come from paying attention to my life.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.
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Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.
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I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.
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I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me.
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I never had any social life, just played the piano and studied, studied, studied.
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The first year I was sober was probably the worst year of my life. My immune system was screwed. I completely isolated myself. I was weak all the time. I didn't know who I was.
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Jesus represents the possibilities of a new dimension of existence that transcends all the boundaries that restrict us from opening ourselves to God and allowing this source of love to flow through us.
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So, my advice to young scientists is, think critically about your work; probably don't blab unnecessarily.
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Do you ever sit back and wonder what it all means? Whether this is it or if there's something greater out there? Or if you were meant for something better?
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Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
