The fame of his likes circulates briskly but soon grows heavy and stale and as for history it will limit his life story to the dash between two dates.

The fame of his likes circulates briskly but soon grows heavy and stale and as for history it will limit his life story to the dash between two dates.
Vladimir Nabokov

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while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space
the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time.
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I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.
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The fame of his likes circulates briskly but soon grows heavy and stale and as for history it will limit his life story to the dash between two dates. Vladimir Nabokov

The fame of his likes circulates briskly but soon grows heavy and stale and as for history it will limit his life story to the dash between two dates.
Vladimir Nabokov