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Vladimir Nabokov Quotes: I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something…

I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.

("Lolita")

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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 . . .
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I am not, and never was, and never could have been, a brutal scoundrel.
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Although I could never get used to the constant state of anxiety in which the guilty, the great, and the tenderhearted live, I felt I was doing my best in the way of mimicry.
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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
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Solitude was corrupting me. I needed company and care.
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We hasten to alienate the very fates we intended to woo.
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