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Vladimir Nabokov Quotes: The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.
         

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.


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Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.



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Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.



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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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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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