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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

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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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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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I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me. – Camillo di Cavour

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