Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.

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• Vladimir Nabokov:

  Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

• Vladimir Nabokov:

  Caress the detail, the divine detail.

• Vladimir Nabokov:

  There is only one school of literature - that of talent.

• Vladimir Nabokov:

  Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

• Vladimir Nabokov:

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

• Vladimir Nabokov:

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

• Vladimir Nabokov:

  Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

• Vladimir Nabokov:

  Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

• Vladimir Nabokov:

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

• Vladimir Nabokov:

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