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Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
«Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.»
«To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute»
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
(Author, Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Magic
| Keywords:
brute, power play, trash, Trashing, type
«Solitude is the play field of Satan»
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
(Author, Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Solitude
| Keywords:
playing field, Satan, the play
«Here lies the sense of literary creation: to portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in kindly mirrors of future times. . . . To find in objects around us the fragrant tenderness that only posterity will discern . . .»
«Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.»