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Life and Death Sunrise

In Comic Novel, Fiction, Literary Fiction
L

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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Rain’s Innocent Fall

In Comic Novel, Fiction, Literary Fiction
R

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

Vladimir Nabokov – Pnin
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Loathing Simplicity

In Fiction, Literary
L

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

Vladimir Nabokov – Pale Fire
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Complacency Shattered

In Comic Novel, Fiction, Literary Fiction
C

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

Vladimir Nabokov – Pnin
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Obsolete Future

In Fiction, Literary
O

The future is but the obsolete in reverse.

Vladimir Nabokov – Pale Fire
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Human Consciousness

In Fiction, Literary
H

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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