When we remember our former selves, there is always that little figure with its long shadow stopping like an uncertain belated visitor on a lighted threshold at the far end of some impeccably narrowing corridor.

Vladimir Nabokov
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  3. This is the best possible way to retain important details that you wish to remember in any unified field of knowledge, whether it be the field of economics, science, history, or any other--link them up with related items which you already know or wouldn't mind... - Ralph Alfred Habas

  4. We only reach true wisdom when we accept that we have probably forgotten far more than we now remember. - Ian Bates

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More Quotes By Vladimir Nabokov
  1. It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.

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

  3. I recall certain moments, let us call them icebergs in paradise, when after having had my fill of her —after fabulous, insane exertions that left me limp and azure-barred— I would gather her in my arms with, at last, a mute moan of human tenderness...

  4. Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

  5. Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece

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