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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

Other quotes by Vladimir Nabokov

Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know. – Vladimir Nabokov

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teacher
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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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Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed. – Corita Kent

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I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end. – Drew Barrymore

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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars. – Henry Van Dyke

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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful? – Pliny the Elder, Natural History

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Schizophrenia beats dining alone. – Oscar Levant

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My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels. – Roger Federer

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