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Complacency Shattered

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Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.

Vladimir Nabokov – Pale Fire
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Human Pain

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The only real numbers are the numbers of human pain.

Vladimir Nabokov – Pale Fire
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Time: The Perfect Author

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Time is the best author. It always writes the perfect ending.

Vladimir Nabokov – Pnin
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Swarming Space

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Space is a swarming in the eyes; and time, a singing in the ears.

Vladimir Nabokov – Pale Fire
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Creature of Habit

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Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.

Vladimir Nabokov – Pale Fire
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Perilous Revelations

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Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.

Vladimir Nabokov – Pnin
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