"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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"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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"Genius is an African who dreams up snow."
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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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"Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one."
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"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
-Jimi Hendrix
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"The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us."
-Michel Foucault
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"Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment."
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"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."
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"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power."
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"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power."
-David Brin
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