Vladimir Nabokov

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To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.
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A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
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.
I confess, I do not believe in time.
Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.
Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.
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.
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

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