"A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual."

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Vladimir Nabokov

#Art Quotes #Important Quotes #Individual Quotes

“The coolest thing, and I have it at home, is a huge Hulk Hogan, normal-sized pinball machine. When people come over they play it for hours. When you hit the bumpers and the bells ring it goes, 'Oh yeah!' The whole time you're playing this machine it's yelling and screaming at you, 'What you gonna do, brother?!' I think that's the coolest.”
“Lifelessness is only a disguise behind which hide unknown forms of life.”

Source : Bruno Schulz, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Goldfarb (2008). “The street of crocodiles and other stories”, Penguin Classics
“Guys act strange around me. I swear I don't know why!”
“I'm a big believer in that old cliché of thinking globally and acting locally.”
“The human body is supposed to be 70 percent water. I consider myself 70 percent film”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Our mother's first gift to us comes at the moment we are born, because Mom, as she will subsequently remind us over and over, gives us the Gift of Life Like many of the gifts we receive from our mothers, the Gift of Life usually doesn't fit properly and is almost never returnable without a major hassle.”
“There has to be a moment at the beginning where you wonder whether youâ€™re in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself. If the moment doesnâ€™t pass, thatâ€™s itâ€”youâ€™re done. And if the moment does pass, it never goes that far. It stands in the distance, ready for whenever you want it back. Sometimes itâ€™s even there when you thought you were searching for something else, like an escape route, or your loversâ€™ face.”
“One fancies that what one loves cannot die.”

Source : Eugénie de Guérin (1866). “Letters”, p.312

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