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Vladimir Nabokov Quotes: Feeling a bit nervous, as most people do…

Feeling a bit nervous, as most people do at the prospect of seeing a doctor, I thought I would buy on my way to him something soothing to prevent an accelerated pulse from misleading credulous science.

("Pale Fire")

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I cannot disobey something which I do not know and the reality of which I have the right to deny.
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You see, she had absolutely nowhere else to go.
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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.
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Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.
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Who can say what heartbreaks are caused in a dog by our discontinuing a romp?
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Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very short walk. Make those twenty-five steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after.
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