The idea of God was invented in the small hours of history by a scam who had genius; it somehow reeks too much of humanity, that idea, to make its azure origin plausible...

Vladimir Nabokov
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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.

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