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

Vladimir Nabokov · Art

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Vladimir Nabokov

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

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Vladimir Nabokov

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.

Nature

Vladimir Nabokov

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

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Vladimir Nabokov

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.

Imagination