"I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all."

-- Vladimir Nabokov

#Humble Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Ego Quotes

“Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we actually had those answers, then society would appear very different from what it is.”
“I want you to remember the guiding principles of my life. You can be what you want to be, if you believe in yourself and work hard, because anything, and I'm telling you anything, is possible.”
“One must use the night.”
“O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream.”
“When I design something, I think of it as a gift to somebody else.”
“We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.”
“I'm fond of online testimonials: people writing about their experiences with ghosts or drugs or bad boyfriends.”
“So we can be filled with holes and loss and wide expanses of unhealed geography - and we can also be excited by life and in love and content at the exact same moment.”

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