I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

—Vladimir Nabokov

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About Vladimir Nabokov

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Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪtɕ nɐˈbokəf] ; 22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1899 – 2 July 1977), also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin (Владимир Сирин), was a Russian and American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist.

More quotations from Vladimir Nabokov

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

—Vladimir Nabokov

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

—Vladimir Nabokov

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

—Vladimir Nabokov

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

—Vladimir Nabokov

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

—Vladimir Nabokov

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May we remember, as we log on, that half the world's people have never used a telephone, and recall, as we chatter, that most of those around us have no chance to speak or move as they choose. May we recall that more than half a million beings live without food, and that as many children live amidst poverty and war.

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What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

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One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget.

—Franklin P. Jones

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Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It’s amazing how much can be conjured with a few notes of a song or a solitary whiff of a room. A song you didn’t even pay attention to at the time, a place that you didn’t even know had a particular smell.

—Emily Giffin in Something Borrowed

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It’s difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything’s changed.

—Gabrielle Zevin in Elsewhere

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