You forget, my good man, that what the artist perceives is, primarily, the difference between things. It is the vulgar who note their resemblance.

Vladimir Nabokov
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  2. The more I see, the less I know for sure. - John Lennon

  3. Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough - Oprah Winfrey

  4. Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out. - Criss Jami

  5. Life is 10 percent what you make itand 90 percent how you take it. - Irving Berlin

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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