Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.
Vladimir NabokovMind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: thatโs when you get shooting stars.
Vladimir NabokovTo know that no one before you has seen an organ you are examining, to trace relationships that have occurred to no one before, to immerse yourself in the wondrous crystalline world of the microscope, where silence reigns, circumscribed by its own horizon, a blindingly white arena - all this is so enticing that I cannot describe it.
Vladimir Nabokov