while the scientist sees everything that happens in one poin... - Vladimir Nabokov
"while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time."
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"Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece."
"To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute."
"The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book."
"A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual."
"The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book."