And all in you is youth, and you make new,
By quoting them, old things I made for you.
—John Shade, in Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire (Canto Four)

Hereunder are collected a variety of striking quotations that I have stumbled across in my reading, grouped loosely by topic. Click any of the headings below to go to a page of quotations on that topic, or use the convenient search feature.

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