Vladimir Nabokov Quotes About Hate

Quotes about: Hate

• Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its tracks a few feet above the cowering village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Hate, Feet, People

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “Pnin”, p.25, Vintage

• Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Hate, People, Ends

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “Pnin”, p.25, Vintage

• There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the very gallant Russian poet Gumilev was put to death by Lenin's ruffians thirty odd years ago was that during the whole ordeal, in the prosecutor's dim office, in the torture house, in the winding corridors that led to the truck, in the truck that took him to the place of execution, and at that place itself, full of the shuffling feet of the clumsy and gloomy shooting squad, the poet kept smiling.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Hate, Years, Squad

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