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“Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.”

Vladimir Nabokov · Poetry

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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

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Death

Vladimir Nabokov

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.

Art

Vladimir Nabokov

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

Art