Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

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.

Vladimir Nabokov

• Thinking
• Death
• Night
• Silent

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• There's stuff I don't like to rehearse, really emotional things, I don't like to rehearse. You just beat it to death.

  

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• I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.

  

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• Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

  

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• I learned a lot from playing those late-night, 1-to-4 A.M. gigs with my band, and playing when no one was listening.

  

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• In the primitive church, it was customary for the Holy Eucharist to be celebrated on the anniversary of the death of a martyr - if possible, on his tomb.

  

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• Bombing, particularly from the perspective of the receiving end, is not 'communication.' Bombs result in death and destruction.

  

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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.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Thinking
  • Death
  • Night