Vladimir Nabokov quotes Born: 04/23/1899 Died: 07/02/1977 Country: usa

• The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. (Vladimir Nabokov) [feeling/words/being]
• I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is. (Vladimir Nabokov) [think/matter/love/more]
• Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it. (Vladimir Nabokov) [past]
• 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) [type/power/power/art]
• The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. (Vladimir Nabokov) [light/darkness]
• Genius is an African who dreams up snow. (Vladimir Nabokov) [genius/dreams]
• A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. (Vladimir Nabokov) [art/society]
• Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash. (Vladimir Nabokov) [literary style/essence/]
• A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past. (Vladimir Nabokov) [more/housing/present/past]

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