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Quote by Vladimir Nabokov
To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power

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

Other quotes by Vladimir Nabokov

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

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Light
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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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Art
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Pictures must not be too picturesque. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Art

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally goodness is always the product of some art. – Charles Baudelaire

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Art

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. – William Blake

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Art

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou thinkst thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me. – John Donne

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Art

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They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. – Jane Austen

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Nature

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail. – Jean Cocteau

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Art

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought. – John Jay Chapman

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Politics

Wise men are instructed in reason;
Men of less understanding by experience;
The most unknowing learn by necessity.
Wise men do in the beginning what fools do in the end. – Source Unknown

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Beginnings