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Quote by Vladimir Nabokov
The world itself is but a series of footnotes to a vast unfinished

The world itself is but a series of footnotes to a vast unfinished masterpiece. – Vladimir Nabokov

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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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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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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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Other Quotes from
Life
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To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness. – Flannery OConnor

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Life

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. – John Lennon

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Life

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others. – Lewis Carroll

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Life

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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Life

Random Quotes

War remains the decisive human failure. – John Kenneth Galbraith

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Failure

I know from my own personal experience. I was bullied in middle school and high school and went through my fair share of hard times thereafter. Also, one of my really good friends committed suicide when I was in high school. – Brittany Snow

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Experience

Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results. – Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

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Hope

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings. – George Santayana

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Experience