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The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.

Author: Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977) | Theme: Pointless | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

Author: Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977) | Theme: Opinion | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

Author: Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977) | Theme: Satire | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

Author: Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977) | Theme: Literature | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure...

Author: Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977) | Theme: Quiet | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 0 | Fav

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.

Author: Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977) | Theme: Opinion | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

Author: Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977) | Theme: Art | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 0 | Fav
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