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Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

Vladimir Nabokov quote: "If sex is the sermon made of art, love is the lady of that tower."

If sex is the sermon made of art, love is the lady of that tower.

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The feelings that hurt most, the motions that sting most, are those that are absurd; the longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world's existence. All these half-tones of the soul's consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are. Fernando Pessoa
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We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself. Gore Vidal
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