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Vladimir Nabokov Quotes: Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.
         

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.


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Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.



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The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.



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There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.



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I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.



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Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.



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I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.





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