Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
Humbert was perfectly capable of intercourse with Eve, but it was Lilith he longed for.
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'The Passing Bells' highlights the horror of the fighting from both sides and draws parallels between these two young boys' lives.
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I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.
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I like to tread uncharted territory and push myself in terms of performance.
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Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
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I write because writing is something that I have to do. And it doesn't matter whether people like it or not. When I write, I feel the pressure and anxiety that come with taking an empty piece of paper and trying to fill it with something from your own consciousness.
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I'll use men's shirts, I love men's shirts, but you have to get them altered because they're shaped differently and I like them to be fitting.
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I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
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I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing manifestations of evil.
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I love getting out the house because writing is such a solitary business that even being at the library makes me feel part of the world.
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Taylor Swift is so flawless, and so unattainable, and I don't think it's breeding anything good in young girls.
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It is only by making the past alive again for a person that a true growth in the present is facilitated. If the past is cut off, the future does not exist.
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The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.
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It's very certain that North Korea is developing nuclear weapons for offensive purposes. They don't need nuclear weapons to defend their own country.
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Human thought by its nature is capable of giving, and does give, absolute truth, which is compounded of a sum-total of relative truths.
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Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.
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Humbert was perfectly capable of intercourse with Eve, but it was Lilith he longed for.
