There are teachers and students with square minds who are by nature meant to undergo the fascination of categories. For them, 'schools' and 'movements' are everything; by painting a group symbol on the brow of mediocrity, they condone their own incomprehension of true genius.


Eugene Onegin: Commentary and index (ed. Princeton University Press, 1990) - ISBN: 9780691019048

Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

There are teachers and students with square minds who are by nature meant to undergo the fascination of categories. For them, 'schools' and...

There are teachers and students with square minds who are by nature meant to undergo the fascination of categories. For them, 'schools' and...

There are teachers and students with square minds who are by nature meant to undergo the fascination of categories. For them, 'schools' and...

There are teachers and students with square minds who are by nature meant to undergo the fascination of categories. For them, 'schools' and...