"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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"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."
-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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"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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"With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour."
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