"A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual."
-Vladimir Nabokov
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"A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist."
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"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."
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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."
-Vladimir Nabokov
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"Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one."
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"I confess, I do not believe in time."
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"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."
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"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly."
-Langston Hughes
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"I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?"
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"I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams."
-H. P. Lovecraft
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"I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long."
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"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."
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