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.
Vladimir Nabokov
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More quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
- A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
- 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.
- Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
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