Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
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The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
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It was really in the Golden Age, between the two world wars, when the pure detective story - of which the locked room mystery is really the ultimate form - became popular.
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I hate jeans for no reason.
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I don't do athletics for any other reason than achieving certain distances, certain titles and goals in my head.
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For some reason, when I get to the 200m, I'm always a little bit nervous.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.
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The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
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So the proposition that the ideal parents for any child are its biological parents is a statement with which we can all agree in the generality, but which does not apply, for one reason or another, in many particular circumstances.
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It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
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After you pay your E-ZPass bill, there is no reason for the government to keep records of your travel.
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The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don't need to believe it.
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My dad was a doctor, but he was just always, like, going from hospital to hospital for some reason.
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The reason why nothing sticks to Trump - or very little sticks to Trump - is that he created this brand idea that has to do with being the guy who gets away from it.
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We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.
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I desperately need the love of complete strangers. That's one reason I overtip. I love when skycaps, waiters, and valets are happy to see me.
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Every laugh is not equal. They come from different places. That's sort of the challenge I go towards, making sure the laughs are for the reasons I want. It becomes a back and forth dance with the audience.
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Champions are not generated from the championship. Champion is generated from something they have in them, desires, dreams, and visions.
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I hope they never have to go through the kind of soul searching that I am going through.
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Mr. Harinton was real. There were adults in the world who would actually make sacrifices for others - not just for their own families but for anyone who needed help. Nicholas had always had the impression that families looked after one another, and he had come to understand that, on rare ocassions, children would do the same... But this was different. What Mr. Harinton was doing certainly helped Nicolas - but it also simply felt right to Nicholas. It made him want to be exactly like Mr. Harinton himself.
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I'd probably say I'm very strong. If somebody says something horrible, I'm like, 'Okay, whatever.'
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Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.
