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• Prophecy is the wit of a fool. -- Vladimir Nabokov
• Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
  -- Vladimir Nabokov, quoted in "Time", 1981...
• Genius is an African who dreams up snow. -- Vladimir Nabokov
• My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. -- Vladimir Nabokov
• eighty years later he could still recall with the young pang of his original joy his falling in love with Ada.
  -- Vladimir Nabokov...
• Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies.
  This explains many things; for example, the fact that Nabokov's novels, for all their elegance and wit, resemble nothing so much as butterflies pinned to a board...
• The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art. Leonardo da Vinci
• One would like to stroke and caress human beings, but one dares not do so, because they bite.
  -- Vladimir Leni...