Vladimir Nabokov Quotes about Humanity

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Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals. It is a mental torture I find debasing... I simply cannot get used to the nightly betrayal of reason, humanity, genius.

Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals. It is a mental torture I find debasing... I simply cannot get used to the nightly betrayal of reason, humanity, genius.

Vladimir Nabokov

Betrayal, Sleep, Humanity

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1989). “Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited”

Although we read with our minds, the seat of artistic delight is between the shoulder blades. That little shiver behind is quite certainly the highest form of emotion that humanity has attained when evolving pure art and pure science. Let us worship the spine and its tingle.

Vladimir Nabokov

Art, Humanity, Mind

Vladimir Nabokov (2017). “Lectures on Literature”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Vladimir Nabokov Quotes about Humanity

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