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Artistic Cage

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We are most artistically caged.

Vladimir Nabokov – Pale Fire
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Genius’s Burden

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A genius needs to keep so much in store, and thus cannot offer you the whole of himself as I do.

Vladimir Nabokov – Pnin
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Human Consciousness

In Fiction, Literary
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How small the cosmos (a kangaroo’s pouch would hold it), how paltry and puny in comparison to human consciousness, to a single recollection, and its expression in words!

Vladimir Nabokov – Pale Fire
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Against Happy Endings

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Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.

Vladimir Nabokov – Pnin
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Tongue Trip

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The tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth.

Vladimir Nabokov – Pale Fire
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Imagination’s Memory Link

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Imagination is a form of memory.

Vladimir Nabokov – Pnin
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