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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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Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals. – Vladimir Nabokov

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Sleep
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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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Art
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Art… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon. – Agnes Repplier, Points of View, 1891

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I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but Im really bad at it. Im just a terrible drawer. I cant draw a circle. Even with a ruler, I cant draw a straight line. – Daniel Radcliffe

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Art

The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute. – Charles Baudelaire

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Art

Artistry is an innate distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the five senses. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Art

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