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Quote by Vladimir Nabokov
It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more tha

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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Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know. – Vladimir Nabokov

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

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Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve. – Max Planck

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Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature. – Michael Faraday

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The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. – Thomas Huxley

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Man was natures mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake. – Eric Hoffer

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In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations – ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies – were not only accepted but occasionally applauded. – Tom Robbins

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I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life – to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from ones neighbors. – Robert W. Service

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You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office even were the world to come to an end, youd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices. – Karel Capek

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