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4 days ago · Vladimir Nabokov — ‘The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of...
3 days ago · RELATED: 185 Positive Child Abuse Quotes For Prevention And Support. 6. “Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning.”. — Fred Rogers. 7. “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”. — Plato. 8. “The true object of all human life is play.”.
4 days ago · Join Goodreads. Vladimir Nabokov > Quotes > Quotable Quote. (?) “Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause.
4 days ago · The hero, Cincinnatus, may have his head chopped off in the fake world he finds himself living in, but his real self survives and strides triumphantly away from the executioner’s platform, watching as all the pasteboard houses and people around him shrink and collapse.
5 days ago · This course approaches Nabokov’s pre-Lolita works through a comparison with the writings of Franz Kafka, Evelyn Waugh, Nathaniel West, and the art of Surrealism. The goal of the course is to explore the cultural atmosphere that helped shape Nabokov as we know him.
5 days ago · ‘Lolita’ by Vladimir Nabokov ‘Lolita’, a novel considered inappropriate and controversial even today, is about the life of Humbert, a literature professor who becomes obsessed with a ...
4 days ago · Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: Владимир Владимирович Набоков [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪtɕ nɐˈbokəf] (listen); 22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1899 – 2 July 1977), also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin (Владимир Сирин), was a Russian-American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist.
