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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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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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