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Quote by Vladimir Nabokov
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only im

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. – Vladimir Nabokov

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Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much. – Vladimir Nabokov

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Imagination
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Vladimir Nabokov
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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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Art
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It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar – that I call an achievement. – Horace

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Art

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty. – Alfred de Vigny

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Art

I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with. – Salma Hayek

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Art

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we dont start measuring her limbs. – Pablo Picasso

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Art

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When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. – Proverb

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The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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You know the definition of the perfectly designed machine…. The perfectly designed machine is one in which all its working parts wear out simultaneously. I am that machine. – Frederick Alexander Lindemann

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Body

When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day. – V. S. Naipaul

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strength