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Knowledge: An Island

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Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

Vladimir Nabokov – Pnin
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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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Life and Death Sunrise

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Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Vladimir Nabokov – Pnin
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Curiosity Equals Insubordination

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Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

Vladimir Nabokov – Pnin
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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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Writers as Historians

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Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may.

Vladimir Nabokov – Pnin
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