Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.

Vladimir Nabokov

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  Vladimir Nabokov
  • War
  • Details
  • Harder