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Vladimir Nabokov
 
Date of birth: 22 April 1899
Date of death: 02 July 1977
Country Of Origin: Russia
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" A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past. "

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

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" A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist. "

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" Caress the detail, the divine detail. "

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" Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece. "

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" Genius is an African who dreams up snow. "

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" I confess, I do not believe in time. "

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" I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is. "

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" I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child. "

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" Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much. "

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" It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot. "

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" It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow. "

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" Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts. "

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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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" Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one. "

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