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There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the very gallant Russian poet Gumilev was put to death by Lenin's ruffians thirty odd years ago was that during the whole ordeal, in the prosecutor's dim office, in the torture house, in the winding corridors that led to the truck, in the truck that took him to the place of execution, and at that place itself, full of the shuffling feet of the clumsy and gloomy shooting squad, the poet kept smiling.
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More Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
The contemplation of beauty, whether it be a uniquely tinted sunset, a radiant face, or a work of art, makes us glance back unwittingly at our personal past and juxtapose ourselves and our inner being with the utterly unattainable beauty revealed to us.
Which arrow flies for ever? The arrow that has hit its mark.
...in my dreams the world would come alive, becoming so captivatingly majestic, free and ethereal, that afterwards it would be oppressive to breathe the dust of this painted life.
Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.
The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.
Because you took advantage of my disadvantage.
I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling
Only one letter divides the comic from the cosmic.
Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.
Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.
