Quote by Vladimir Nabokov
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that ou

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

Other quotes by Vladimir Nabokov

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

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Nature
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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

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Home
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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

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Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element we can exist in. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light. – Evelyn Dunbar

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Light

When you possess light within, you see it externally. – Anaïs Nin

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Light

Is there anything more loyal than the sun? – Mary Oliver

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Light

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