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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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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There is no reason for me to show my collection in New York, because it's not about craft and technique there.
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We have no reason to suppose that we are the Creator's last word.
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I don't believe there is any justifiable reason for killing any animal unless perhaps if it's killing you! That would be negotiable.
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Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.
