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

— Vladimir Nabokov

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Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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

— Vladimir Nabokov

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It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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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 there, among spurious lives. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me. ↗

— Rafael Nadal

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It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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