"A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual."
-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.“
-Vladimir Nabokov
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"I confess, I do not believe in time."
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"Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know."
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