“Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.”
Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor
As quoted in Reading Lolita in Tehran (2003) by Azar Nafisi
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
From an April 13, 1942 letter to poet Joë Bousquet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%AB_Bousquet, published in their collected correspondence (Correspondance [Lausanne: Editions l'Age d'Homme, 1982], p. 18). <br class="br">Original: L’attention est la forme la plus rare et la plus pure de la générosité. https://books.google.com/books?id=BxpMAAAAMAAJ&q=%22L%E2%80%99attention+est+la+forme+la+plus+rare+et+la+plus+pure+de+la+g%C3%A9n%C3%A9rosit%C3%A9%22&dq=%22L%E2%80%99attention+est+la+forme+la+plus+rare+et+la+plus+pure+de+la+g%C3%A9n%C3%A9rosit%C3%A9%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiD6K24mfvLAhUGax4KHW4HAjkQ6AEIPjAF
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