Famous quotes containing the word nabokov:
“My feelings about my work are, on the whole, not unfriendly. Boundless modesty and what people call humility are virtues scarcely conducive to ones complacently dwelling upon ones own workparticularly when one lacks them.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)
“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 (18991977)
“No, Im Spartacus. You come to free the slaves or something?”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)
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