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Vladimir Nabokov : My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. # Music

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Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov : " My loathings are simple stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. " # Music

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Primo Levi : " To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a crime. To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn't. " # Music

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Henry Miller : " The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you. " # Music

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Simone de Beauvoir : " All oppression creates a state of war. " # Music

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Ernst Kaltenbrunner : " Oppression is the essence of power. " # Music

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Napoleon Bonaparte : " Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress. " # Music

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Karl Marx : " The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. " # Music

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Steven Biko : " The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. " # Music

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Simone Weil : " Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission. " # Music

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Meridel Le Sueur : " The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors. " # Music

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Vladimir Nabokov: " I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, I speak like a child." # Writers and Writing # Genius # Critics and Criticism

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Vladimir Nabokov: " I think it is all a matter of love the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is." # Love # Strangers # Memory

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Vladimir Nabokov: " Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." # Life and Living # Death and Dying # Love

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Vladimir Nabokov: " Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form." # Risk # Curiosity # Books - Reading

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Vladimir Nabokov: " Whenever in my dreams, I see the dead, they always appear silent, bothered, strangely depressed, quite unlike their dear bright selves. I am aware of them, without any astonishment, in surroundings they never visited during their earthly existence, in the house of some friend of mine they never knew. They sit apart, frowning at the floor, as if death were a dark taint, a shameful family secret. It is certainly not then — not in dreams — but when one is wide awake, at moments of robust joy and achievement, on the highest terrace of consciousness, that mortality has a chance to peer beyond its own limits, from the mast, from the past and its castle-tower. And although nothing much can be seen through the mist, there is somehow the blissful feeling that one is looking in the right direction." # Twentieth Century # Death and Dying # Love

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Vladimir Nabokov: " I don't belong to any club or group. I don't fish, cook, dance, endorse books, sign books, co-sign declarations, eat oysters, get drunk, go to church, go to analysts, or take part in demonstrations." # Psychoanalysis # Books - Reading # Churches

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Vladimir Nabokov: " Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, an initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh when? About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer. You can always count on a murderer for fancy prose style. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns." # Poetry and Poets # Love # Age and Aging

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Vladimir Nabokov: " Oh, "impressed" is not the right word! Treading the soil of the moon gives one, I imagine (or rather my projected self imagines), the most remarkable romantic thrill ever experienced in the history of discovery. Of course, I rented a television set to watch every moment of their marvelous adventure. That gentle little minuet that despite their awkward suits the two men danced with such grace to the tune of lunar gravity was a lovely sight. It was also a moment when a flag means to one more than a flag usually does. I am puzzled and pained by the fact that the English weeklies ignored the absolutely overwhelming excitement of the adventure, the strange sensual exhilaration of palpating those precious pebbles, of seeing our marbled globe in the black sky, of feeling along one's spine the shiver and wonder of it. After all, Englishmen should understand that thrill, they who have been the greatest, the purest explorers. Why then drag in such irrelevant matters as wasted dollars and power politics?" # Moon # Love # Politicians and Politics

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Vladimir Nabokov: " The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness." # Existence # Common Sense # Love

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Vladimir Nabokov: " It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot." # Fame

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