“Solitude is the playfield of Satan.”
― Pale Fire
― Pale Fire
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.”
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“All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born.”
― Pale Fire
― Pale Fire
“do what only a true artist can do ... pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation”
― Pale Fire
― Pale Fire
“If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.”
― Pale Fire
― Pale Fire
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