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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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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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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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Nature
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Vladimir Nabokov
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The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible. – Hillary Clinton

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Art lies by its own artifice. – Ovid

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I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way. – Lady Gaga

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Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs. – Thomas Wolfe

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I believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims. – Timothy Radcliffe

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There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another. – Edouard Manet

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A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache. – Catherine the Great

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Men are not punished for their sins, but by them. – Elbert Hubbard, A Thousand and One Epigrams, 1911

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