Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

I should allow only my heart to have imagination; and for the rest rely on memory, that long drawn sunset of one's personal truth.

Vladimir Nabokov

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• I never went to any Tea Party meetings, although I am fiscally very much in like mind, and grateful for and appreciative of the support of anybody, no matter what group they might be part of.

  

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• I should allow only my heart to have imagination; and for the rest rely on memory, that long drawn sunset of one's personal truth.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Long
  • Heart
  • Memories