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