Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.
Vladimir NabokovThe rich philistinism emanating from advertisements is due not to their exaggerating (or inventing) the glory of this or that serviceable article but to suggesting that the acme of human happiness is purchasable and that its purchase somehow ennobles the purchaser.
Vladimir NabokovI am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.
Vladimir Nabokov