Vladimir Nabokov on Knowledge
Browse 4 quotations attributed to Vladimir Nabokov, catalogued under knowledge, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Vladimir Nabokov, entry #202030: "What!" cried Bretwit in candid surprise, "They know at home that His Majesty has left Zembla?"
Attributed to Vladimir Nabokov, entry #103389: "My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting."
4 Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov on Knowledge
"What!" cried Bretwit in candid surprise, "They know at home that His Majesty has left Zembla?"
"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting."
"To be quite candid — and what I am going to say now is something I have never said before, and I hope that it provokes a salutary chill — I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more."
"To know that no one before you has seen an organ you are examining, to trace relationships that have occurred to no one before, to immerse yourself in the wondrous crystalline world of the microscope, where silence reigns, circumscribed by its own horizon, a blindingly white arena — all this is so enticing that I cannot describe it."