Nabokov

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    I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst.
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    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 (1899–1977)

    A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the stock ideas and conventional ideals of his or her group and time.
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)